URL Slug Generator
Convert titles and headings into clean, lowercase, URL-friendly slugs for blogs, online stores and web apps. This SEO friendly link creator and URL friendly text generator removes symbols, converts accents and supports bulk conversion.
Slugs are generated instantly in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
How to use the Slug Generator
- Paste a titleEnter a blog post title, product name or page heading. Switch on bulk mode to convert many titles at once, one per line.
- Adjust the optionsChoose a separator, keep lowercase on, convert accents and optionally remove stop words such as “the” and “and”.
- Check length and previewSee the full URL preview and character count. Slugs under about 60 characters are easiest to read and share.
- Copy and publishCopy the slug or full URL and paste it into WordPress, Shopify or your CMS.
An SEO friendly link creator that gets the details right
Clean, readable slugs
Removes punctuation, emoji and extra spaces, and joins words with hyphens.
Smart transliteration
Converts accents and special letters: café → cafe, straße → strasse, & → and.
Stop-word removal
Optionally drops filler words to keep slugs short and keyword-focused.
Never cuts words
The length limit trims at the nearest separator so slugs never end mid-word.
Bulk mode
Convert hundreds of product names or post titles at once, one per line.
Private string manipulation
Every operation happens in your browser with no uploads.
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page. In https://example.com/blog/how-to-write-a-headline, the slug is how-to-write-a-headline. Good slugs are short, descriptive, lowercase and separated by hyphens. They help visitors understand a link before they click it and give search engines a small, clear hint about the page topic.
Why use a URL slug generator?
Creating slugs by hand is easy to get wrong. Titles contain capital letters, apostrophes, ampersands, accented characters, emoji and punctuation that either break URLs or turn into ugly percent-encoded strings such as %C3%A9. Our URL slug generator handles all of that automatically: it lowercases text, converts accents to plain letters, replaces symbols like “&” with words, removes everything that is not a letter or number, and joins the result with your chosen separator.
SEO-friendly URL best practices
- Use hyphens, not underscores. Google recommends hyphens to separate words in URLs.
- Keep slugs short. Three to six meaningful words is usually enough; URL length matters because long slugs get truncated in search results and are harder to share.
- Include the main keyword where it naturally describes the page, but do not stuff keywords.
- Use lowercase only. On many servers
/Pageand/pageare different URLs, which can cause duplicate content and broken links. - Avoid dates and numbers that will age, unless the content is genuinely time-specific.
- Do not change published slugs without a 301 redirect, or you will lose links and rankings.
- Set a canonical URL on every page so duplicate versions point to one preferred address.
Bulk string manipulation utilities for developers
Developers and store owners often need slugs for hundreds of items at once, for example when importing a product catalog or migrating a blog. Switch on bulk mode and paste one title per line to get one slug per line, ready to paste into a spreadsheet or CSV. The same logic is easy to reproduce in code; see our guide on creating a slug in JavaScript and slug in PHP. Store owners will also find our guides on eCommerce URL structure, editing a WordPress slug and file names for SEO useful.
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, such as “best-coffee-makers” in example.com/best-coffee-makers.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in URLs?
Use hyphens. Google's guidance recommends hyphens to separate words in URLs, because underscores can be treated as joining words together.
How long should a URL slug be?
There is no hard limit, but short slugs of about 3–6 words (under roughly 60 characters) are easiest to read, share and display in search results.
Should I remove stop words from slugs?
Often, yes. Removing words such as “the”, “and” and “of” keeps slugs short. Keep them when removing them changes the meaning or makes the slug awkward.
What happens to accented and non-English characters?
With “Convert accents” on, letters like é, ü and ñ become e, u and n, and special letters such as ß and ø become ss and o. Turn it off to keep Unicode letters in the slug.
Can I change a slug after publishing?
You can, but set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one so visitors and search engines are sent to the right page and you keep existing links.
Does a keyword in the URL help rankings?
It is a minor signal at most. Its bigger benefit is clarity: a descriptive URL tells people what to expect, which can improve click-through and sharing.
URL slug & SEO-friendly link guides
20 practical guides written to help you get more out of the slug generator.
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