Standard Redirection Procedure?

[jgstyle]

I have built a site for my sister that has been parked at a subdomain of my own site for almost 1 year now. She has finally bought her own URL and I am ready to move her site over to that address (hosted by my same provider).

What is the recommended way for me to direct the user to the new address? Do I leave the old site up for awhile and use a meta-tag?

Or just leave a white page with a link explaining what happened?

How do I do this so that Google and other search engines do not think it is some kind of trickery?

Thanks for any help.

-John G

[Krapulator]

Redirect to the new site using a 301 Moved Permanently response.