Google has announced that their Change of Address tool in Webmaster Tools now allows webmasters to submit moves for subdomains.

One of the pain points of Google Webmaster Tools Change of Address tool is that it didn’t support subdomain moves, so it is nice that they have added this feature.

#WebmasterNews: You can now use Change of Address in Webmaster Tools to move between subdomains, not just root domains.

For example, you can now move from foo.example.com to bar.example.net and any combination of domains/subdomains. Learn how in our help center article: http://goo.gl/5M7xab

Unfortunately it does not seem to support HTTP to HTTPS moves yet, which is something many webmasters have been requesting, particularly with Google’s focus trying to get webmasters to make the SSL switch.

It should be active in all GWT accounts now.  They do have a support document detailing  how to use to tool correctly.

As a bonus for webmasters, you can see John Mueller‘s site was the one shown in the screenshot.  Be sure to visit johns-subdomain.blogspot.com to see what he was redirecting to 🙂