URL Slug Generator

Paste a title — or one title per line — and get a clean, lowercase URL slug for each.

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Remove stop words

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What is a URL slug?

The slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page. In example.com/blog/url-slug-best-practices the slug is url-slug-best-practices. WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, Webflow and most other CMSs generate one from the title, but the automatic version often keeps stop words, dates, emoji residue or accented letters that turn into ugly percent-encoding like caf%C3%A9.

What this generator does

Input	Slug
10 Best Cafés in Zürich (2026 Guide)	10-best-cafes-in-zurich-2026-guide
Straße & Brücke	strasse-and-brucke
What's New in iOS?	whats-new-in-ios
What Is a URL Slug & Why Does It Matter? (stop words off)	url-slug-matter

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Slug

10 Best Cafés in Zürich (2026 Guide)

10-best-cafes-in-zurich-2026-guide

Straße & Brücke

strasse-and-brucke

What's New in iOS?

whats-new-in-ios

What Is a URL Slug & Why Does It Matter? (stop words off)

url-slug-matter

Accented letters are converted to their plain Latin equivalents, and special letters are transliterated (ß → ss, æ → ae, ø → o, ł → l).

Apostrophes are dropped so "what's" becomes whats, not what-s.

Every other symbol and space becomes a single separator, with no leading, trailing or doubled hyphens.

The Max length limit cuts at a word boundary, never in the middle of a word. Set it to 0 for no limit.

Slug best practices for SEO

Use hyphens, not underscores. Google's URL structure guidelines recommend hyphens to separate words; underscores can cause words to be read as one.

Keep it short and descriptive. Three to six meaningful words is usually enough. Long slugs get truncated in search results and are awkward to share.

Include the main topic, not the whole title. "Remove stop words" drops filler such as the, of, and, how, what, but read the result — sometimes a stop word carries meaning.

Avoid dates and numbers that will age, unless the page is genuinely tied to them. A slug with "2026" looks stale next year and is painful to change.

Use lowercase. Many servers treat /About and /about as different URLs, which can create duplicates.

Don't change slugs casually. If you must, add a 301 redirect from the old URL so links and rankings carry over.

Paste many titles at once — one per line — to generate slugs for a whole content plan or a product import file.

Frequently asked questions

Should I use hyphens or underscores in URLs?

Hyphens. Google recommends hyphens to separate words in URLs. Underscores are fine for file names in code but less clear for search engines and readers.

How long should a URL slug be?

There is no fixed rule, but most good slugs are 3 to 6 words and under about 60 characters. Shorter slugs are easier to read, share and remember.

Should I remove stop words from slugs?

Often, yes, because words like "the" and "of" add length without meaning. Keep them when removing them changes the meaning or makes the slug unreadable.

Can I generate slugs for many titles at once?

Yes. Paste one title per line and you get one slug per line in the same order.

URL Slug Generator

What is a URL slug?

What this generator does

Slug best practices for SEO

Frequently asked questions

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