How long till pages drop out of the index

[bjalc2011]

In your experience how long does it normally take for 301-redirected pages to drop out of Google's index?

[Alex-Harford]

It depends how often the website is crawled and how deep the pages are within the site. A site I work on with a Domain Authority of about 60 took less than two days. Another one with a DA of 20ish was changed almost two weeks ago and still hasn't updated.

[AndyKuiper]

Hi Blaine My experience has been for 'relevant' landing pages, that is pages Google deems worthy of a decent rank, the 301'd page is usually gone from the index within 2 or 3 days. However, as Alex pointed out, if the page is thin, weak, or not considered all that relevant from Google's perspective, I've been seeing anywhere from 10 to 21+ days for the 301'd page to be removed from the index. I hope this helps

[bjalc2011]

Thanks Alex for sharing your experience. The DA on this site is about 40 so maybe it will be somewhere between the two you mention. I'll keep monitoring.

[bjalc2011]

Hi Andy - I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my question. I'm currently monitoring the transition process (losing the extended sitelinks on the original domain but fingers-crossed they will return on the new domain)

[AndyKuiper]

I think the PA (of the 'old' 301'd page) in this case will be more important than the DA. High PA on the 301'd page would 'likely' (and I say that with much trepidation) result in a quicker de-indexing.

Andy