Penalty for too many links from one site to another?

wondering about forwarding when changing sites

[Sasquatch]

I am part of a group that tests and reviews backpacking gear. We are in the process of moving off a Yahoo groups site to our own (hosted) website.

Until we are indexed by google we are replacing all our old report pages with a page that will forward you to the appropriate report on the new site.

Will having 600 of these set off any sort of spam detector at Google?

I'd rather disappear from the radar screen for a month than forever.

[taxpod]

That shouldn't be considered spam. It may cost you a little time as Google finds your new pages. Maybe you'll miss one update.

By the way, I've seen pages with meta refressh forwarders sit high up in the serps for months and months!

[Sasquatch]

Thanks for the feedback taxpod.

I was hoping that would be the answer, but I agree with Andy Grove about "Only the Paranoid Survive".

At this point I am just trying to avoid having people get 404s when they follow links from the SE.

If we get the first couple levels of the site crawled in September I will be happy, because I arrogantly believe that we will quickly get a PR high enough to serve our modest purposes. We have the content, and we will have the links from manufacturer sites that tend to run in the PR 5-7 range.

Not to mention the hundreds of member's personal pages (PR 2-7)

Waiting a little while to get up there isn't as important to us as to all of you that need to make money off your traffic. It just makes it that much easier to get the manufacturers to supply us with gear to review.

[taxpod]

Only the paranoid survive? I suppose there is truth to that.

I wonder why anyone, who could, wouldn't forward people to the new location after a move. Even if a page is moved. It's so easy to do even if you moved 600 pages. Forget about the SE's. Think of all the possible links to a 404! I wouldn't want potential visitors thinking I went away possibly for good!