Slug Generator, Turn Any Title Into a Clean URL Slug
This slug generator converts any title or phrase into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug instantly. Choose hyphens or underscores, strip stop words, set a max length, and convert entire lists at once, no sign up needed.
How the Slug Generator Works
This slug generator converts any title, headline, or phrase into a clean URL slug by lowercasing the text, removing punctuation and special characters, converting accented letters to their plain equivalents, and joining the remaining words with your chosen separator. Paste one title per line to convert an entire batch of URLs at once.
Search engines and most CMS platforms strongly prefer slugs that are short, lowercase, use hyphens rather than underscores or spaces, and contain only the words that matter, since a clean slug is easier to read at a glance in search results, browser tabs, and shared links.
Everything runs locally in your browser using plain text processing, nothing you type is sent to a server.
What This Tool Does
How to Use It
Paste your titles
Add one title per line in the text box, works for a single title or a whole list.
Set options
Pick a separator, max length, and whether to strip common stop words.
Generate
Click Generate Slugs to convert every line at once.
Copy and use
Copy an individual slug or all of them together, then paste into your CMS.
SEO Best Practices for URL Slugs
Keep it short
Shorter slugs are easier to read, share, and remember, aim for 3 to 6 meaningful words where possible.
Use hyphens, not underscores
Google explicitly treats hyphens as word separators but does not always treat underscores the same way, hyphens are the standard choice.
Drop filler words
Words like “a,” “the,” and “of” rarely add clarity to a URL and only make it longer, removing them is a common and safe practice.
FAQ: Slug Generator
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human readable form, for example in convertnow.tools/tools/seo-marketing/slug-generator/, “slug-generator” is the slug. It’s typically derived from the page’s title but simplified, lowercased, and stripped of punctuation so it reads cleanly in a browser address bar and search results.
Hyphens are the standard recommendation. Google has confirmed it treats hyphens as word separators when parsing a URL for its meaning, effectively reading “coffee-shops” as two words. Underscores are sometimes treated as a single joined word instead, which can slightly hurt how search engines interpret the slug’s individual keywords. Most CMS platforms, including WordPress, default to hyphens for this reason.
No, removing common stop words like “a,” “the,” “of,” and “and” from a slug is a widely accepted practice and generally considered good for SEO, since it shortens the URL and keeps the focus on meaningful keywords without changing what the page is actually about. Google’s own guidance favors short, descriptive URLs over long, exact-match phrasing.
There’s no strict character limit enforced by search engines, but shorter slugs, generally under 60 characters or so, tend to perform better in practice since they’re fully visible in search results without being truncated and are easier for people to read and remember. Focus on including the most important 3 to 6 keywords rather than mirroring your entire title.
They’re automatically converted to their closest plain ASCII equivalent, so “café” becomes “cafe” and “château” becomes “chateau.” This keeps URLs universally readable and avoids encoding issues that can occur with non-ASCII characters in some browsers, servers, and sharing contexts.
Yes, but changing a slug on a page that’s already indexed and receiving traffic or backlinks means the old URL will 404 unless you set up a 301 redirect from the old slug to the new one. It’s best to finalize a slug before publishing when possible, and to always add a redirect if you do need to change one later, to preserve existing search rankings and avoid broken links.
Not necessarily, and often it shouldn’t. Titles can be longer and more descriptive for readers and click-through appeal, “10 Best Coffee Shops in New York City You Need to Try in 2026,” while the slug can be a shorter, keyword focused version like “best-coffee-shops-nyc.” The slug’s job is to be a clean, permanent identifier, not a full restatement of the title.
No, all conversion happens locally in your browser using JavaScript text processing, nothing you type is sent to a server, logged, or stored.