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Drupal out of the box has good SEO features that makes it Search Engine Friendly (SEF) instantly, just converting a website to Drupal has positive effects on the SEO side. With good themes that have SEF markups and things like javascript (JS) and CSS aggregation in Drupal core it helps to speed up a website and attract search engine bots. Core modules like path helps to define SEF URL for the content of your website with clean URL without the ?q=. If you have path on, I guess the obvious next step is to get pathauto, so I will not include pathauto in my list below.

The reason behind the success of Drupal is because of its many benefits. First, it is search engine friendly. It provides better control to you URL structure. It gives your website better ranking in the search engines because it can customize your content with clean URL. Besides that, it has something called CCK (Content Construction Kit) that acts as a tool that let you creates different types of content with ease. You can create new stories, blog post, tutorials and these are just to name a few. This is something that other CMS cannot provide you.

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In this example, we are going to hide the "title" field and populate it with the first and last name. We use CCK to add the firstname and lastname.

In this case we catch the "profile_node_form" but you catch any form you like.

<?php
/**************************************************************************
* Implementation of hook_nodeapi();
*/
function sns_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id){

if ($form_id = 'profile_node_form'){
$form['title']['#required'] = false;
$form['title']['#access'] = false;
};
}