URL Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. Handles accents, punctuation and stop words automatically.
How to use it
- Paste your page title — accents are stripped and punctuation removed.
- Removing stop words keeps slugs short without losing meaning.
- Aim for under 60 characters; the first few words matter most.
Converts any page title or heading into a clean URL slug — lowercase, hyphen-separated, stripped of accents and punctuation — the format search engines and web frameworks expect a URL path segment to be in.
What gets cleaned up automatically
Accented characters are normalised to their plain equivalents (é becomes e, ñ becomes n), so international titles produce URLs that work reliably across every system rather than relying on URL-encoded accented characters, which some tools and copy-paste flows handle inconsistently. Punctuation and symbols are stripped, spaces become hyphens, and everything is lowercased, since case sensitivity in URLs varies by server configuration and mixed-case URLs are best avoided entirely.
Removing stop words
Turning on stop-word removal drops common connector words like 'a', 'the', 'of', 'and' from the slug, keeping it shorter and more keyword-dense without losing the meaningful words — '10 Best Tools for Managing a Small Team' becomes 10-best-tools-managing-small-team rather than the longer literal version, which is both easier to read and closer to what search engines weight most.
Length and where it matters
Keeping a slug under roughly 60 characters keeps it fully visible in a search results snippet rather than being truncated, and the first few words of a URL are generally weighted more heavily than words further along, so trimming from the end rather than the middle preserves the most useful part.
Questions people ask
Should slugs use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Search engines treat a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a word joiner, so 'cm-to-inches' reads as three words and 'cm_to_inches' as one.
Last updated 17 August 2026