URL Slug Generator
SEO-friendly slugs.
URL Slug Generator at a glance
URL Slug Generator is a free online seo tool you can use right now to SEO-friendly slugs โ no account, no install and no usage limit. It runs entirely inside your browser, so whatever you enter stays on your own device.
- Price
- Free โ no trial, no paid tier, no watermark
- Sign-up
- Not required
- Where it runs
- In your browser โ nothing is uploaded to a server
- Works on
- Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge โ desktop, tablet and phone
- Category
- SEO Tools
About URL Slug Generator
Turn a title into a clean URL slug: lowercase, hyphen-separated, with punctuation removed and accented characters transliterated.
Hyphens rather than underscores is the established convention, and it is not arbitrary โ Google has stated it treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners, so hello_world may be read as a single token while hello-world reads as two words. For any slug you want matched against a multi-word query, hyphens are the correct choice.
Shorter slugs generally work better than longer ones. Stripping filler words โ a, the, of, and โ keeps the meaningful terms without changing what the URL communicates, and a slug that survives being read aloud or printed is more useful than one carrying an entire headline. Keep the words that identify the content and drop the ones that only provide grammar.
The most important operational rule: once a URL is published, changing its slug breaks every existing link and discards whatever ranking it accumulated. If you must change one, serve a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one, which passes almost all of the accumulated signals. Changing slugs casually โ particularly across a whole site during a redesign โ is one of the more reliable ways to lose traffic.
How to use URL Slug Generator
- Paste your title or heading.
- The slug is generated instantly, lowercased and hyphenated with punctuation stripped.
- Copy it into your CMS or route definition.
Frequently asked questions
Hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a word joiner, so hello_world can be read as one token while hello-world reads as two words. Hyphens are the long-established convention.
How long should a slug be?
Long enough to identify the content and no longer. Dropping filler words such as a, the and of keeps the meaningful terms. A slug that reads clearly when spoken or printed is about right.
Can I change a slug after publishing?
You can, but it breaks every existing link and discards the URL's accumulated ranking signals unless you add a 301 redirect from the old path to the new one. Avoid changing slugs without a good reason.
How are accented and non-Latin characters handled?
Accented Latin characters are transliterated โ cafรฉ becomes cafe โ which keeps URLs readable everywhere. Non-Latin scripts can be used directly in modern URLs but display as percent-encoded text in many contexts, so transliteration is usually safer.