URL Slug Generator

What the generator does

A slug is the readable part of a web address that names a page, such as how-to-bake-sourdough in example.com/blog/how-to-bake-sourdough. The Slug Generator turns any title into a clean slug as you type. Paste several titles, one per line, and you get one slug per line, each with a character count and a copy button. You can choose a hyphen or an underscore, set a maximum length, remove filler words, keep or drop capital letters, and keep non-Latin letters.

Worked examples

These results come from the generator with its different options.

• Default: "How to Bake Perfect Sourdough Bread at Home" becomes how-to-bake-perfect-sourdough-bread-at-home, which is 43 characters.
• Remove filler words: the same title becomes bake-perfect-sourdough-bread-home.
• Filler words removed and a maximum length of 20: it becomes bake-perfect, because the tool cuts at a whole word instead of in the middle of one.
• Accents and symbols: "Crème Brûlée & Café – 50% Off!" becomes creme-brulee-and-cafe-50-percent-off. Accented letters become plain ones, & becomes "and" and % becomes "percent".
• Underscore separator: "Hello World" becomes hello_world.

What makes a good slug

Short slugs that contain the main words are easier to read, share and remember, and they show up in full in search results, where long addresses are cut off. The tool warns you when a single slug is over about 60 characters. Use lowercase letters and hyphens, because addresses are case-sensitive on many servers and Google treats a hyphen as a space between words, while an underscore joins words together. Leave out dates, numbers that will go stale, and words that add nothing, such as "a" and "the".

Non-Latin letters

By default, letters outside the Latin alphabet are dropped, so "日本語 Tokyo" becomes tokyo. Tick "Keep non-Latin letters" and the same title becomes 日本語-tokyo. Browsers display such addresses correctly, but they are percent-encoded when copied, which makes them long in emails and chats. For sites in languages such as Japanese, Arabic or Hindi, it is worth deciding on a policy once: native-script slugs help local readers recognise a link, while transliterated slugs are easier to type and share.

Changing slugs on a live site

Choose the slug before you publish. If you change the address of a page that already has links or search traffic, set up a permanent (301) redirect from the old address to the new one, or visitors and search engines will find an error page instead. You can check the redirect with the Redirect Checker. Keep the slug in line with the page title and the heading, which you can write with the Meta Title Generator and check with the Heading Tag Checker.

Limits

The tool cleans text, but it does not check whether the slug is already used on your site. Different pages need different slugs, and the Sitemap Generator can list the final addresses. If the title is made up only of symbols or unsupported letters, the tool tells you that nothing is left after cleaning. Everything is done in your browser.