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One of the best ways to get to know Drupal is to find the useful parts and, well, use them! Here are the most popular modules in Drupal 6, according to the stats at Drupal.org.

10. Google Analytics

There's some controversy in the Drupal community over which characters to use to break up your site's paths. Most sites use either dashes or underscores. Personally, I prefer underscores for readability reasons. To me, it's easier to mentally parse this url:

http://www.davetech.com/drupal_consulting_services

Than this url:

http://www.davetech.com/drupal-consulting-services

SEO Implications

Drupal's Twitter module is a neat addition to any blog. It allows you to integrate Twitter with Drupal in two different ways:

1. It will import your latest tweets into your user profile, or into a block
2. It will automatically post to your Twitter account when you author new content

There are lots of articles out there about how to make your site more SEO-friendly, but few of these address Drupal sites specifically. Fortunately, there are a number of easy changes you can make to your existing Drupal site more appealing to search engines! Follow these six simple steps and you should see an increased number of visitors, using the same content you currently have published.