Slug Generator
Turn any headline, product name, or page title into a clean URL slug in one step. This free slug generator strips accents and special characters, lowercases everything, swaps spaces for hyphens, and can trim stop words and length for you. Everything runs in your browser. No signup, no upload, no tracking. Paste a title, get a slug.
How to Make a Clean URL Slug
- Paste your title. Blog headline, product name, page heading, anything. Hit the Example button first if you want to see how it works.
- Pick your separator. Hyphens are the SEO standard. Underscores exist if your system requires them, but search engines do not split words on underscores.
- Set max length. Fifty to sixty characters keeps slugs readable and shareable. The tool trims at a word boundary, so you never get a slug cut off mid-word.
- Toggle lowercase and stop-word removal. Lowercase keeps URLs consistent everywhere. Dropping words like "the," "and," and "for" shortens the slug without losing meaning.
- Copy your slug. One click and it is ready to paste into WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, or any CMS.
What Makes a Good Slug
A slug is small, but it gets read by search engines and by humans hovering over shared links. The good ones all share the same traits:
- Short. Under 60 characters. Long slugs get truncated in search results and look sloppy when pasted into email or social posts.
- Keyword first. Search engines read URLs left to right. "blue-widget-review" beats "my-thoughts-on-blue-widgets-from-last-week" every time.
- Hyphen separated. Google treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners. "my-blog-post" reads as three words; "my_blog_post" reads as one token.
- All lowercase. Some servers treat /Blog and /blog as different pages. Lowercase avoids duplicate-content headaches.
- No filler words. "the," "and," "of," and "for" add length and zero ranking value. Strip them.
- Human readable. If a stranger cannot guess what the page is from the slug alone, rewrite it.
Who Uses a Slug Generator
Auto-generated slugs keep stop words, dates, and junk. Paste the headline here and get a clean one before you publish.
Slugs for routes, file names, and database keys in seconds, with accents and special characters handled automatically.
Cleaning titles in bulk before a migration or a publish run, with consistent length caps and stop-word removal.
Product names full of sizes, colors, and specs turn into clean product URLs that customers can actually read.
Campaign landing pages get readable slugs that survive being pasted into emails, ads, and social posts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
A URL slug is the readable tail end of a web address that names a specific page, like "my-awesome-blog-post" in cyberscryb.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post. It is the part you control when you publish.
How long should a URL slug be?
Aim for under 60 characters. Shorter slugs rank just as well, get clicked more often, and do not get cut off in search results. Set Max Length to 50 or 60 here and the tool trims at a word boundary, so nothing gets cut mid-word.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in URLs?
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners, so "my-blog-post" reads as three words and "my_blog_post" reads as one long token. Hyphens are the SEO standard.
Do URL slugs affect SEO?
Yes, mildly. A short slug with your target keyword near the front ranks slightly better and gets a higher click-through rate than an auto-generated mess. It is a small ranking factor, not a magic one. Good slugs support good content; they do not replace it.
Can slugs have capital letters, spaces, or accents?
Browsers encode them, but the result is ugly. Spaces become %20, é becomes %C3%A9, and some older systems break entirely. Lowercase ASCII with hyphens is the safe universal standard, and it is exactly what this tool produces. Accents are transliterated automatically (é becomes e, ñ becomes n).
Should I remove stop words from slugs?
Yes. Stop words add length with zero ranking value. Turn on the Remove stop words option and "the-ultimate-guide-to-email-marketing" becomes "ultimate-guide-email-marketing" with no meaning lost.
Will changing my URL slug hurt my rankings?
Changing a live slug without a 301 redirect will hurt, because the old URL dies and search engines treat the new one as a fresh page. Add the redirect from the old URL to the new one and most pages recover their rankings quickly. Never change slugs casually on pages that already rank.
Is this tool free, and does it upload my text?
Free, no signup, and everything runs in your browser with vanilla JavaScript. Your titles never leave your device and nothing is tracked.