How much time does it take for the links to be forwarded to redirected link?

[MoeezLodhi]

Hi there,
Thank you for taking out some time for this question; I have changed the permalinks last week for a website.. I forgot to redirect old permalinks to the new one.. So I did 301 redirection, it has been 4-5 days since I did that but the links are not forwarded to the new Permalink so far.
How much time should I wait for the links to be forwarded to the new permalinks? Secondly, I am sure I have done the 301 redirect correctly, as when I go to the old url / permalink it directs me to the new permalink. So I am sure 301 is done correctly.

Do I need to submit the sitemap again?

[MoeezLodhi]

Hi,
Thank you for the response. Yes, 301 redirects are working fine. checked webmaster; pages are indexed. I will wait for the redirects to pass on the links then.

Thank you again!

Best Regards,
Moeez

[crackingmedia]

Hi, if your 301 redirects are tested as working then that is good so existing links in Google's index should at least be forwarding tor the correct pages.

Are you asking how much time you should wait for the links in Google's search results to show the new links? If so, it often depends on how active your site is with updates normally. The more frequent you update the site the more often Google will tend to check for changes. In general though, a few days is not unreasonable to wait, maybe a bit longer.

Have you checked your sitemap in Google's Webmaster Tools? Does it show that Google have processed it and indexed pages. There's no real need to re-send a sitemap if the original was correct, so if everything checks out OK then I would wait for a bit more.

I hope that helps,
Peter