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Thanks again Ryan. Yer, we can't seem to see any issues either, maybe we just need to wait and build up links to them...

Thanks Ryan. We have 301's set up on these pages. However, some pages have been added since then after all of the changes and also don't perform well? I don't know if that makes a difference?

We have a page rank 5 website and we launched a new site 6 months ago in February.

Initially we had horrible urls with a bunch of numbers and stuff and we since changed them to lovely human readable urls. This had an excellent effect across the site except on one section of the site:

http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/graduate-employers

Although Google has indexed these pages and several have a PR 2 they do not appear in Google when previously they were on page 1 when we had the old urls. We figured we just needed some time for Google to get used to it, but it hasn't done anything. It is also worth mentioning we changed the page titles from:

FIRM NAME | DOMAIN NAME

then...

FIRM NAME | Graduate Scheme, Jobs, Internships & Apprenticeships | DOMAIN NAME

then..

FIRM NAME | Graduate Scheme, Jobs, Internships & Apprenticeships

Do you think these are being penalised?

There are two types of page:

Example A:

http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/graduates/addleshaw-goddard.htm

Example B:

http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/graduates/accenture.htm

We recently modified the whole URL structure on our website, which resulted in huge amount of 404 pages changing them to nice human readable urls. We did this in the middle of March - about 10 weeks ago...

We used to have around 5000 404 pages in the beginning, but this number is decreasing slowly. (We have around 3000 now).

On some parts of the website we have also set up a 301 redirect from the old URLs to the new ones, to avoid showing a 404 page thus making the “indexing transmission”, but it doesn’t seem to have made any difference.

We've lost a significant amount of traffic, because of the URL changes, as Google removed the old URLs, but hasn’t indexed our new URLs yet.

Is there anything else we can do to get our website indexed with the new URL structure quicker?

It might also be useful to know that we are a page rank 4 and have over 30,000 unique users a month so I am sure Google often comes to the site quite often and pages we have made since then that only have the new url structure are indexed within hours sometimes they appear in search the next day!