Pathauto is one of Drupal modules you have to use if you care so much about Search Engine Optimalization (SE0). Pathauto module will automatically generates path aliases for your Drupal site or also know as Search Engine Friendly url.

Pathauto can generate Drupal nodes, categories, terms, user, forum path aliases without requiring user to manually type the url path alias. You can even specify how Pathauto generates the path alias for your site. You can a path looks like www.yoursite.com/this-is-the-node-path.html or even like www.yoursite/category-name/term-name/this-is-the-node-path.html.

To use it first download the Pathauto module from here. Activate Drupal Clean URL feature from administer -> Site configuration -> Clean URLs, click on the “Run the clean URL test” link, if the test works enable the Clean URLs and click on the Save configuration button. Upload the modules to /sites/all/modules/ (assuming you’re using Drupal 5 or above). Activate the modules from the administer -> Site building -> Modules menu. After that, configure how pathauto will operate in administer -> Site configuration -> Pathauto menu. Read more…

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