I am sure this question must have been answered many times before but cannot locate a concise answer. If the answer is no then what is the preferred way to ensure google will index (preferably without have to rewrite my files as html) Can someone help answer this question or point me to where I can find an answer?
It is not the file extension that does the damage (you can change a normal html page to a .php file and it will run fine). The problems occur when you have loads of parameters in the url. Straight from the horses mouth Source of quotes: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
If it was that easy then mod-rewrite wouldn't be so popular. If you have a small site, you can create a sitemap or a few sitemaps linking to those pages. You can also submit those links to google sitemaps.