old pages, new content

[SlowMove]

I've got hundreds of pages indexed that aren't doing much good. I want to add a bunch of new content. Is it best to use the old pages for the new content even though the names of the pages wouldn't accurately describe the content? www.mysite.com/widgets.html would no longer be about widgets. Is this the right approach, or are there other ways to get new pages indexed quickly?

[kevinpate]

We're no e-commerce so this approach may not be aggressive enough for your needs. Our index page gets visited regularly by a few SE's. One part of the index is a 'what's new' section. Bots follow these links so new pages being found is not much of an issue for us.

In addition to the what's new section link, when it's reasonable for the user, another related page or three with regular bot visits also get a link pointing to the new content.

It works for us. a new area on our site, just a few pages on a new topic added late in dec., has pages ranking well at g, notwithstanding toolbar pr remaining white, for now, and also pops in higher than 11 at atw. Ink hasn't indexed the pages yet (we have no PFI budget so we depend on slurp finding these items) but that's ok. Looking at Pure Search, our pages which carry the links to the new area rank well for the relevant phrase and the snippets make it clear the info can be found at our site. That'll work until slurp gets hungrier.