URL Slug Generator: SEO-Friendly Slugs From Titles
This slug generator turns titles and phrases into clean URL slugs, the readable part of a web address such as /best-budget-laptops. It lowercases text, swaps spaces for hyphens, converts accented letters, strips symbols and can drop filler words, for one title or a whole list at once.
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Quick answer: Paste a title and copy the slug. “10 Best Café Recipes & Tips for Beginners (2026)!” becomes 10-best-cafe-recipes-and-tips-for-beginners-2026, or 10-best-cafe-recipes-tips-beginners-2026 with stop words removed.
How to use the slug generator
- Type or paste one title per line. Each line becomes its own slug.
- Choose the separator. Hyphens are the standard for web pages and are what Google recommends.
- Tick Remove stop words for shorter slugs, and set a maximum length so long titles are cut at a whole word.
- Copy the slugs into WordPress, Shopify, your CMS or code.
What makes a good URL slug?
- Short and descriptive: three to five meaningful words is ideal, such as
/remove-duplicate-lines. - Lowercase with hyphens: Google treats hyphens as word separators but reads underscores as joining words. Lowercase avoids duplicate URLs, since some servers treat capitals as different pages.
- Includes the main keyword: it tells people and search engines what the page is about.
- No dates unless needed: a slug without a year can stay the same when you update the article.
- Plain characters: accented letters, spaces and symbols become ugly percent codes such as %C3%A9 when shared.
Examples
| Title | Slug |
|---|---|
| How to Make Cold Brew Coffee at Home | make-cold-brew-coffee-home |
| Top 10 Laptops Under $500 | top-10-laptops-under-500 |
| Crème Brûlée: A Simple Recipe | creme-brulee-simple-recipe |
| Q&A With Our CEO | q-and-a-with-our-ceo |
Changing slugs on live pages
If a page is already published and ranking, changing its slug creates a new URL. Set up a 301 redirect from the old address so visitors and search engines follow it, and update internal links. In WordPress, plugins such as Rank Math and Redirection can add the redirect for you.
Related tools: the case converter changes text case, the URL encoder encodes special characters, and the character counter checks title and meta description length.
FAQ
What does slugify mean?
To slugify text is to turn it into a URL-safe slug: lowercase words joined by hyphens, with symbols removed.
Does it work with other languages?
Yes. Accented Latin letters are converted to plain letters, and letters in scripts such as Hindi, Arabic or Chinese are kept, since modern browsers display them in URLs.
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