Hi minstrel, bhartzer,

Thanks for that list minstrel, it's a lifesaver, just what I was looking for. I think it all seems quite straight forward even though I am new to these web hosting functions, I have now got some temp domains setup where I practice this stuff and then apply them to the live sites ;).

On one of these test sites today from my cPanel I used a redirect function they have built in with two options temporary or permanent - I chose the permanent redirect, Im assuming it's a 301, how do you tell??

I redirected the domain.com and each page individually to the corresponding one on the new site, it seems to work perfect, I hope it is safe SE wise, I could go about doing it manually using one of the options in the list, but I am assuming that this basically the same thing. I'll set up a sample and post it here, would appreciate advice, if someones used this function in the Linux cPanel before and can tell me it worked for them, that would be fantastic...

...there doesn't seem to be a time delay in the method I am using.

Thankfully that domain has no backlinks yet, none that I know of, although the sudden spurt in traffic lately *Knocks hard on the wood* makes me wonder if im missing something. There are a few cross links between sites I manage, primarily so that search engines can find the newer sites. I think it does more harm than good, but will do for now. But no link backs to update, thank god for small mercies, that's always a tiresome undertaking.

Thanks for all the tips,
Deep