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Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug instantly, right in your browser.

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About this tool

A slug is the URL-friendly part of a page address, for example the "how-to-write-seo-content" in yoursite.com/blog/how-to-write-seo-content. This tool lowercases your title, treats spaces and underscores both as word separators and replaces them with hyphens, strips punctuation and symbols, and transliterates accented letters (like é or ñ) to their plain equivalent instead of deleting them. Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, and other non-Latin scripts are kept as-is rather than force-converted, since there's no reliable way to transliterate every script correctly, and a native-script slug is valid in a URL once percent-encoded. Everything runs in your browser: nothing is uploaded or stored anywhere.

A few things worth knowing before you publish: hyphens and underscores are not interchangeable to Google, a hyphen is read as a word separator ("keyword-research" indexes as two words) while an underscore joins words into one token ("keyword_research" reads as a single word), which is why this tool always converts underscores to hyphens. Current SEO guidance generally puts the ideal slug length around 50-60 characters, with roughly 75 as a practical ceiling, so the max length slider defaults to 80 but is worth pulling down toward 60 for a typical title. The slug wording itself is only a minor, confirmed-small direct Google ranking factor, Google's own guidance is clear that content quality matters far more, but a slug that matches what someone actually searched for does tend to earn a better click-through rate in search results, which is a real, if indirect, benefit.

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Frequently asked questions

A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page, usually derived from its title. Clean, readable slugs (using real words separated by hyphens) are easier for both users and search engines to understand than long IDs or unedited titles full of stopwords and punctuation.
Letters like é, ñ, or ü are converted to their closest plain-letter equivalent (e, n, u) rather than deleted, so "Café" becomes "cafe" instead of losing a letter and becoming "caf". This keeps the slug readable and avoids accidentally merging or breaking words.
Hebrew and other non-Latin scripts are kept as-is rather than stripped out or force-converted to Latin letters, since there's no reliable way to transliterate every script correctly. A Hebrew title produces a Hebrew slug, which browsers and search engines handle correctly once percent-encoded in the URL. There's a real trade-off worth knowing about, though: when a non-Latin slug is shared on social media, in chat apps, or in email, it often displays as an unreadable string of percent-encoded characters instead of the original text, which is why some non-Latin-language sites choose to transliterate their slugs to Latin characters manually instead, purely for shareability, even though it isn't technically required.
Very long slugs are harder to read, share, and display in search results. The max length slider controls this: the tool cuts the slug at the nearest word boundary at or before that length, so it never chops off in the middle of a word.
No. This tool generates the slug entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server or saved.
Most current SEO guidance puts the ideal slug length around 50 to 60 characters, with roughly 75 characters as a practical ceiling before it starts hurting readability and getting truncated in search results. This tool's max length slider defaults to 80 characters, so for a typical title it's worth pulling the slider down toward 55-60 rather than leaving it at the default.
It's common, legitimate advice to drop stop words (the, and, of, a, an) from a slug to keep it short and focused, for example "seo-audit-guide" instead of "the-complete-guide-to-seo-audits". This tool doesn't remove stop words automatically, since sometimes one is genuinely needed for the slug to still read clearly, so it's worth trimming them yourself in the title before generating the slug if you want a tighter result.
It depends entirely on whether the page is already live and indexed. Changing the slug of an unpublished draft or a brand-new page is completely safe, there's nothing to lose yet. Changing the slug of a page that's already indexed, ranking, or has earned backlinks is riskier: even with a correct 301 redirect in place, Google transfers ranking signal to the new URL gradually rather than instantly, so expect a temporary dip rather than a clean, immediate carryover. If you do need to change a live page's slug, always set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one.
Only slightly, and only directly. Google's own guidance describes the words in a URL as a very small ranking factor on their own, content quality and relevance matter far more. Where a well-chosen slug does help more meaningfully is indirectly: a URL that visibly matches what someone searched for tends to earn a better click-through rate in the search results list, and that click-through behavior is itself a signal search engines pick up on over time.

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