Slug Generator
Turn a title into a clean URL slug — accents folded, punctuation dropped, stop words removed if you want them gone.
Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. It all runs in your browser.
What makes a good slug
- Short and readable. A slug someone can read aloud is one they can also remember and link to.
- Hyphens, not underscores. Google splits on hyphens; underscores join words together.
- Lowercase always. Some servers treat cases as different URLs, which quietly splits your link equity in two.
- No dates or IDs unless the content genuinely expires. A slug with 2026 in it ages badly.
Changing a slug on a live page
A published URL has links pointing at it. If you change it, 301 the old one to the new one — otherwise every link built to that page stops passing anything, which is an expensive way to tidy a URL.
Questions people ask
Does putting the keyword in the slug help rankings?
A little, and less than people assume — Google has called the words in a URL a very small signal. The real benefit is indirect: a readable slug is what people copy into a message, and when someone links without writing anchor text, the URL itself becomes the anchor. Include the term once because it describes the page, not to hit a quota.
Do stop words in a slug hurt anything?
No. Removing the and of shortens the URL and nothing else. The option is here because short slugs are easier to paste and quote, not because the stripped version ranks better. If removing them makes the slug read like a telegram, keep them.
Should I use folders to show site structure?
Only where the folders mean something to a reader. Google works out where a page sits from the links pointing at it, not from the number of slashes in the path — /blog/post and /2026/03/category/post are equally reachable if both are linked well. Depth in a URL is not click depth.
Can I use Cyrillic or Armenian characters directly in the URL?
Technically yes: browsers and Google handle percent-encoded UTF-8 fine. In practice the encoded form is what gets pasted into emails and spreadsheets, and it is unreadable. This tool transliterates instead, which keeps the slug legible everywhere it travels.
Is it worth changing an ugly slug on an old page?
Usually not. A 301 carries almost everything across, but almost is not all, and you break every place the raw URL was pasted without a redirect following it. Change it when the slug is actively wrong — a typo, the old product name, a date on evergreen content — and leave it alone when it is merely inelegant.
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