Originally Posted by Jdoughs

301 from dead page to new page with same content on same domain equals win.

301 from dead domain to another domain is wrong, unless you have put up the exact same site in another place, and you are just consolidating the content in one place (ie you buy a cocks site and 301 its pages to the same pages on your site).

A 301 is a code that tells the Search Engine (and browser) that the content has been placed somewhere else. But using a 301 to send the spider and surfers to a completely unique or different page full of content is using it incorrectly, and could be seen as spam by the engines.

Basically, make sure you know what a 301 is before implementing them. My guess is the content you 301'd was not really the same content. So commanding them to get the content from the other page (where it didnt exist) is not going to make the spider your friend.