Hello! I'm helping out with a site written in a custom CMS. I've noticed that Google does index pages on the site that were dynamically generated. I've been a little out of the game for a while, so I was wondering if anyone has opinions on how necessary it is to implement steps such as mod_rewrite. I'm simply looking for some current opinion here, many of the articles I've been looking at were written a while back.
Well I always use it actually because it isn't that hard. I am not sure if it really helps but I think it really does it job if you would have a lot of parameters in your URL otherwise. I don't know how your URL structure looks like but index.php?page=home is better than index.php?id=1 for an example if you don't use mod_rewrite.
I think Google only takes the first parameter. So index.php?id=something works, but when your url is index.php?id=something&value=fubar it's too much for Google. Using mod_rewrite also makes the url's look nicer for the users.
Thanks for the input. In this instance, I'm not sure that changing URLs would be a good idea since they're already indexed. Good info for setting up a new site though.