I've been meaning to enable search engine friendly URLs for Drupal for some time now. It's a very valuable feature, but requires a few module installations to get running. The main reason I want them is to add some context to trackbacks. Not all blogs post the title and snippet of the post that is linking back. I hoping having search engine friendly urls will help entice some users to click through on the trackbacks. I am also hoping they well help a little with search engine ranking, but my main motivation is aesthetics as I've given up trying to please the finicky search engines.
The first thing you will need is to make sure you have Clean Urls enabled. Then install the following two modules:
There you have it! Once those two modules are installed you can modify the format of the search engine friendly urls by changing the settings from the pathauto administration page.
