Ranking new URL's quickly

[Whitey]

If 301's are out of the question [ for whatever reason ] and your sitemaps + WMT , and IBL's are in order, is there a way to speed up the ranking of new URL/pages, or is this always going to be a lengthly process?

8 months seems a long time to wait so far.

[Crush]

Seems like you need better links.

[Shaddows]

New URLs should rank reasonably quickly on an established domain.

A new domain is likely to take a long time to rank in competitive SERPs

[tedster]

Yes 8 months is a long time. How many new urls, Whitey?

Are they changed urls on an established domain for previously existing content? Solid link structure - not long silos? No 404 issues? No canonical issues?

[Whitey]

How many new urls, Whitey?

The site has approx 5800 urls. Around 2500 of these were replaced

Are they changed urls on an established domain for previously existing content?

Yes - exactly the same. However, there is a different site design, which works fine on other sites which we cut over before.

Solid link structure - not long silos?

This is fine

No 404 issues?

A bit of mixture being reported in WMT. Some 404'd URL's are showing internal links with report dates from 1-2 years ago, which were removed over 8 months ago.

There are some 404 URL's reported with internal links that still incorrectly exist - maybe 1-200 or so at a guess. Not sure if this is effecting things. It hasn't effected our other sites.

No canonical issues?

None - all resolve to "/"

One thing i did notice is that some of the URL's have received a TBPR 1. There are still others at the same PR distribution level that are white bar. These pages are showing PR1 at best

The site may have dropped a notch shortly after the cutover - so maybe Crush's comment is a good one Y/N ?

[edited by: Whitey at 3:47 am (utc) on April 8, 2009]

[tedster]

Getting at least some of the existing backlinks to point ot the new version of the url can be a big help.