Moving the site and Rebranding

[Therealmattyd]

I was wondering about moving the site and rebranding. If one was to move their site with a good Google Page Rank, how long should you take before doing the updated redesign, cms update and url restructuring? I know that Matt Cutts has said that you should move BEFORE doing your redesign but I don't remember him saying how long you should take for each step.

Thanks!

[DennisSeymour]

There's really no "right" answer for this since I don't recall any official statement about it.

I would just move, make sure all my redirects/content are done.

Then start applying the redesign. Normally I would wait for it to be crawled but nowadays, I just jump right into the redesign after moving all the content/301's. I've never really seen big problems, normally, just small dips but it usually goes back to normal.