Slug Generator
Turn titles into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs
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The slug is the human-readable tail of a URL — the /seo-friendly-url part — and it's the piece you fully control. Search engines use it as a relevance signal, users read it before deciding to click, and messy slugs with UTM parameters, spaces or Unicode soup undermine both. Google treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as word joiners, so 'best-coffee' is two indexable keywords while 'best_coffee' is one unreadable token. Details like that are exactly why slug format still matters.
This slug generator converts any title to a clean URL slug in one pass: diacritics are stripped (Café becomes cafe), ampersands become 'and', everything non-alphanumeric collapses to your chosen separator, and results can be forced lowercase and trimmed to a maximum length at a word boundary. Paste a whole list of titles — one per line — and get all their slugs back at once, ready to copy into a CMS, sitemap or database seed. It runs entirely in your browser, so unpublished drafts stay private.
Why use Slug Generator
Preparing blog posts for a CMS
Paste the article title, copy the slug into WordPress, Ghost or your custom CMS URL field before hitting publish.
Renaming URLs during a site migration
Clean up legacy URLs in bulk: paste fifty old titles, get fifty consistent lowercase slugs, and build the redirect map around them.
Naming product pages consistently
E-commerce catalogs with mixed-case, space-filled URLs look untrustworthy; uniform slugs build both crawlability and user trust.
Generating file names from document titles
The same rules that make good URLs make good file names — keep downloads and attachments readable on every OS.
Pro tips
- Keep slugs under 60 characters: long slug tails get truncated in search results and diluted as keyword signals.
- Drop stop words from your slug manually ('the', 'a', 'how-to-make') — three to six focused words outrank a full sentence.
- Never change a published slug without a 301 redirect: every backlink and bookmark to the old URL breaks instantly.
- Use hyphens, end of story. Google's own documentation says hyphens are word separators and underscores are not.
How to use Slug Generator
- 1Paste one or more titles (one per line)
- 2Pick dash or underscore separator
- 3Set lowercase and a max length if needed
- 4Copy all slugs at once
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes a slug SEO-friendly?▾
Short, lowercase, hyphen-separated words without stop-words or special characters. Hyphens are preferred over underscores because Google treats hyphens as word separators.
Are accented characters handled?▾
Yes — 'Café Über' becomes 'cafe-uber'. Diacritics are stripped and anything non-alphanumeric becomes the separator.