Google PR and 301s

Time for propigation?

[espmartin]

Hello All

Using either .htaccess or:

<?
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("location: http://www.example.com");
exit();
?>

From experience (yes, your opinion will be appreciated,
but I'm looking for real world answers ;) ), can anyone
who's experienced a move like this tell me the time frame
for PR to travel/follow those same pages to the new location?

The redirected pages will be moved to their own sub-domain,
or on a new domain.

Thanks!

[g1smd]

Having multiple sub-pages from one domain all redirect to the root of the other domain or sub-domain is generally not a very good idea.

The folder and page names would be better preserved in the redirect. The old URLs will continue to show in the SERPs as Supplemental Results for a year after the redirect is added.

PR will take many months to follow, but more importantly any new domain is treated as a new site and has no "age" factors accumulated. Sub-domains can inherit some from the main domain but don't rely on it.