Old site gone

When will the new one arrive?

[Powdork]

I recently calved off a directory of my main site to form a separate site. The pages were redirected so that I wouldn't lose the search engine visitors as well as those from the many links to interior pages. Well, Google dropped the old site's pages on tuesday but does not show the same pages from the new site in the results yet, although they do show with the site search. While the new site does not show pr yet, the pages should have as much as before since the incoming links to the old pages are redirected to the corresponding new pages and because everything is now 1 click closer to the new main PR source (home page).
Anyone have experience on how long the time lag is between losing the old pages and gaining the new when using permanent redirects?

[g1smd]

There is no evidence that the PR is redirected as soon as you move a page, and simply redirect to it. PR might be recalculated in the next few weeks, but that isn't the same as "just following a redirect", otherwise spammers would just contentrate a load of redirects from doorway sites to their main site. Allow a couple of months for Google to reindex you.

I guess thats what happens when you try to mess with things. Was the move for your visitors, or some attempt to boost PR? If the latter, then you just got burned.

[Powdork]

Definitely not for PR. Back in November when Florida hit it was apparent that to rank well for any phrase in my location I had to have a major directory for my location. I said then I would go out and build the best resource for my location and in my opinion I have now done that. The former site was called locationkeywords.com, but it had as much or more info about location as any so now I have aboutlocation.com and the old site, locationkeywords.com. Since the old site had navigation to both areas i have now freed up prime advertising space on what is now both sites, if that makes sense. Plus, the 'keyword' theme of the old site doesn't necessarily fit the theme of the new site. There are many reasons for the move ,as there had to be because I knew this would happen. the only factor involving PR is that it is easier to get links to the new site now that it is not under the URL of the old site.
A couple of months seems like a long time, given that G has 144 of the 750+ pages indexed as of now (and has crawled most of the rest), but if I have to wait, I have to. I want to know so I can give potential clients an idea of when traffic will start to reflect advertising costs and have a reasonable idea of what my advertising costs should be.