Do I have to tell WBT site moved to a subdirectory on another internal site?

[GeorgeLaRochelle]

I am moving content from one site to another and redirecting the DNS from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com/old-site. I have put the 301 in place but I wanted to make sure I have to also tell Webmaster Tools to change the old site to the new domain? We still want the old domain name to answer and redirect to www.newsite.com/old-site.

Thanks

[RyanKent]

Do I have to tell WBT site moved to a subdirectory on another internal site?

You don't "have to" at all, but I would recommend doing it.

Google will recognize the redirects and over the course of a month they will update their index. In my experience if you inform Google via WMT that your site moved, they can update their index much faster (i.e. within a day).