Redirecting a Few URLs to a New Domain

[seoaustin]

We are in the process of buying the blog section of a site.  Let's say Site A is buying Site B.

We have taken the content from Site B and replicated it on Site A, along with the exact url besides the TLD.  We then issued 301 redirects from Site B to Site A and initiated a crawl on those original Site B urls so Google would understand they are now redirecting to Site A.

The new urls for Site A, with the same content are now showing up in Google's index if we do a site:SiteA.com search on the big G.

Anyone have any experience with this as to how long before Site A urls should replace Site B urls in the search results?

I undestand there may be a ranking difference and CTR difference based on domain bias, etc... I'm just asking if everything goes as planned and there isn't a huge issue, does the process take weeks or months?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

It depends how many URLs we're talking about here. If you would do a huge redirects for tens of thousands of pages before the last ones are going to be indexed the right way it can take indeed up to a year maybe. For a couple of redirects, depending on your crawl frequency it shouldn't take more then a couple of weeks. When did you make the change?

[seoaustin]

We made the change on Monday June 20th.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Yeah you'll have to wait way longer if it's a small site. Probably Google is not visiting your site too often so it will take time before they redirect all new pages to the new one.