URL Slug Generator
Turn any text into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug.
Overview
The URL Slug Generator turns any text into a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug — stripping accents, transliterating non-ASCII characters, removing stop words optionally, and collapsing whitespace and punctuation to single hyphens. Perfect for article URLs, file names, and any identifier where readability and URL-safety both matter.
Useful for writers and developers learning how to generate a URL-safe slug from a title or how to convert a string to a slug for SEO. Reach for it when a CMS produces ugly slugs from titles, when building scripts that import legacy content, or when standardising slug rules across a multi-author team.
How it works
The generator normalises Unicode to NFD form, removes combining marks (turning é into e), maps remaining non-ASCII characters via a transliteration table (German ß → ss, Polish ł → l), lowercases, replaces any sequence of non-alphanumeric characters with a single hyphen, and trims hyphens from each end. Optional stop-word removal skips low-value words like the, and, of to keep slugs short and keyword-dense.
URL slugs should be readable by humans and stable over time. The generator does not enforce length limits but warns when output exceeds 60 characters — beyond that, Google may truncate in the SERP display.
Examples
Hello, World!→hello-world.Naïve Café — Édition Spéciale→naive-cafe-edition-speciale.Top 10 Tips for Better SEO in 2026with stop-word removal →top-10-tips-better-seo-2026.multiple spaces→multiple-spaces(whitespace collapsed and trimmed).
FAQ
Should slugs include keywords?
Yes, when natural. Slug words carry small SEO weight and improve click-through by showing relevance in the URL. Keyword-stuffing slugs is a recognised spam pattern, though — keep them human-readable.
Lowercase or mixed case?
Lowercase. URLs are case-sensitive on most servers, so mixed-case slugs create duplicate-URL issues when users share them with different casing.
What about hyphens vs underscores?
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as glue, so top-ten-tips is read as three words while top_ten_tips is read as one.
Do I need to keep slugs short?
Aim for under 60 characters. Beyond that, the URL is truncated in search results and shared links become ugly. Stop-word removal usually fixes overlong slugs.