A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in human-readable words, e.g. /blog/seo-slug-generator. A well-formed slug uses lowercase letters, hyphens as word separators, and no special characters.

Why are hyphens preferred over underscores?

Google treats hyphens as word separators, so "seo-slug" is read as two words. Underscores are not treated as separators, so "seo_slug" may be read as one word. Hyphens are the widely accepted standard.

How does the tool handle accented characters?

Common accented characters (e.g. é, ñ, ü) are transliterated to their ASCII equivalents (e, n, u) so the slug remains URL-safe without percent-encoding.

Is there a maximum slug length?

There is no hard browser limit, but SEO best practice recommends keeping slugs under 60–75 characters. Shorter slugs are easier to share and display fully in search result snippets.

Does the tool send my text to a server?

No. All processing runs locally in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing is sent to any server.

Can I generate multiple slugs at once?

Type or paste one title at a time. The slug updates instantly as you type so you can iterate quickly.

SEO Slug Generator

Paste any title or phrase and instantly get a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug ready for SEO.

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Trim stop words Limit to 60 chars

Stop words removed (when checked): a, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, for, from, has, he, in, is, it, its, of, on, or, that, the, to, was, were, will, with, how, what, why, when, where, who

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Summary

The SEO Slug Generator turns any title, heading, or phrase into a clean URL slug — all lowercase, words joined by hyphens, and stripped of special characters. Clean slugs help search engines parse your URLs clearly and improve click-through rates in search results. Paste your text, copy the result, and use it directly in your CMS or code.

How it works

Paste or type a title or phrase into the input box.
The tool converts your text to lowercase in real time.
Accented and special characters are transliterated or removed.
Spaces and punctuation are replaced with hyphens.
Consecutive hyphens are collapsed and leading/trailing hyphens are trimmed.
Click "Copy Slug" to copy the result to your clipboard.

Use cases

Generate blog post permalinks before publishing.
Create clean product or category URLs for e-commerce sites.
Build consistent route names for web applications.
Prepare slugs for CMS platforms like WordPress, Ghost, or Contentful.
Convert multilingual or accented titles into ASCII-safe URLs.
Standardize URL naming conventions across a team.
Quickly test how a long title compresses into a slug.
Produce anchor IDs for on-page heading links.

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Last updated: 2026-06-11 · Reviewed by Nham Vu