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FREE URL SLUG GENERATOR
URL Slug Generator: clean SEO-friendly slugs
A free URL slug generator. Type a title to get a clean, lowercase, hyphenated slug with accents transliterated and stop words removed. Do one title or a whole batch, preview the full URL, then copy. No signup, nothing leaves your browser.
- Lowercase and hyphenated
- Transliterates accents
- No signup required
HANDLES
Your title
Generated in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Your slug
HOW IT WORKS
From a messy title to a clean URL
A URL slug is the readable part of a web address that identifies a page. A good slug is short, lowercase and hyphenated, with no accents or junk characters. If you change a slug on a live page, set up a redirect with the Redirect Rule Generator so links and rankings are kept.
Enter a title
Type or paste any title. The slug updates live as you type, with spaces turned into hyphens and symbols stripped.
Tune the options
Choose a separator, set a max length, and decide whether to remove stop words, keep numbers and transliterate accents.
Copy the slug
Copy the clean slug or the full URL. Use batch mode to slugify a whole list of titles at once.
WHAT THIS TOOL HANDLES
Every character a clean slug should not keep
The generator normalises case, spacing and punctuation, and converts accented and special letters to their closest plain ASCII form, so the result is safe in any URL.
Lowercase by default
URLs are case sensitive on many servers, so slugs are lowercased to avoid duplicate URLs that point to the same page.
Hyphen or underscore
Spaces become your chosen separator. Hyphens are the SEO-safe default, since Google reads them as word breaks.
Transliteration
Accented and special letters such as e-acute, umlaut and eszett are converted to plain ASCII, so cafe stays readable.
Symbol and emoji removal
Punctuation, symbols and emoji are stripped, and repeated separators are collapsed into one for a tidy slug.
Optional stop-word removal
Drop filler words like a, the and of to shorten the slug to the words that carry meaning and your keyword.
Batch slugs
Paste a list of titles and get a slug for each, with the full URL preview and copy for every row.
GENERATOR VS THE CMS DEFAULT
Do not ship the slug your CMS guessed
Many platforms auto-generate slugs that keep stop words, dates or IDs, or leave accents encoded. This tool gives you a clean slug you control before the URL goes live and gets indexed.
| What you get | This Generator | CMS default | Hand-editing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase and hyphenated | ✓ Always | Usually | You remember |
| Accent transliteration | ✓ | Often encoded | Manual |
| Stop-word removal | ✓ Optional | Keeps them | Manual |
| Length control | ✓ | No | You trim |
| Batch slugs at once | ✓ | No | Slow |
| Find messy URLs across a site | ✓ With SiteAuditLint | No | No |
Changing a live slug? Add a 301 redirect so the old URL still works. The free SiteAuditLint desktop app finds long, messy and duplicate URLs across your whole site.
FAQ
URL slug generator questions
What is a URL slug generator?
A URL slug generator turns a title or phrase into the part of a URL that identifies a page, for example turning My First Blog Post into my-first-blog-post. It lowercases the text, swaps spaces for hyphens and strips characters that do not belong in a clean URL.
Is this URL slug generator free?
Yes. It is free with no signup and runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you type is uploaded. It works offline once the page has loaded.
What makes a good SEO slug?
A good slug is short, lowercase, readable and uses hyphens between words. Keep it to a few meaningful words, include your target keyword, and avoid dates, IDs and stop words that add length without meaning.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?
Use hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but reads underscores as joiners, so word-one is two words to Google while word_one can be read as one. Hyphens are the safe choice for URLs.
Does it handle accents and other languages?
Yes. Accented letters are transliterated to their closest ASCII form, so cafe stays readable instead of becoming an encoded string. Characters with no Latin equivalent are removed so the slug stays clean.
What happens if I change a URL slug on a live page?
Changing a slug changes the URL, so set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one to keep links and rankings. You can build those rules with the Redirect Rule Generator.
Build clean slugs here. Find messy URLs across every page with SiteAuditLint.
Long, duplicate and non-canonical URLs pile up as a site grows. The free desktop crawler surfaces them all, so you know which URLs to clean up and redirect.
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