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Free URL Slug Generator
Type a title. We turn it into a clean URL slug — lowercased, hyphenated, punctuation and common stop words stripped.
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Type a title — everything happens in your browser as you type.
We lowercase it, strip accents and punctuation, collapse whitespace into hyphens, and optionally drop common stop words (a, the, and, of, and similar).
Copy the result and use it as your page's URL path.
Example Result
A good slug is short, lowercase and readable. These are two titles and the slugs the generator produces from them.
Title: 10 Best SEO Tips for Beginners (2026 Edition)!
Slug: 10-best-seo-tips-for-beginners-2026
Title: How Do I Fix a 404 Error on WordPress?
Slug: fix-404-error-wordpressCommon mistakes
- Use hyphens, not underscores or spaces, to separate words.
- Keep slugs short and readable. A long slug adds nothing and is harder to share.
- Changing a slug after publishing breaks existing links. Add a 301 redirect from the old URL.
- Avoid dates unless the content is truly dated; they make a page look old.
- Avoid accents, capital letters and special characters. Keep to a-z, 0-9 and hyphens.
Who Uses This
Blog posts
Turn a headline into a clean slug before publishing, instead of shipping whatever the CMS auto-generates.
Product pages
Keep product URLs consistent and readable across a large catalog.
Content migrations
Re-derive consistent slugs when moving content between platforms with different auto-slug behavior.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why remove stop words like "a" and "the"?
They add length without adding meaning for search — a shorter, keyword-dense slug is generally preferred. It's optional here since some brands or product names read oddly without them.
Should slugs use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Google explicitly treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a word joiner, so "small-business" is read as two words but "small_business" isn't.
How long should a slug be?
Short enough to stay readable and keyword-focused — there's no hard limit, but a slug with your full article title including every stop word is usually longer than useful.
Does changing a URL slug hurt SEO?
Only if you don't redirect the old one. Changing a slug on a page with existing rankings/backlinks should be paired with a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one.
Is this the same as a slug maker or slugify tool?
Yes — generator, maker, and "slugify" all describe the same kind of tool: turning text into a URL-safe slug.
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