Slug Generator

What this tool does

The Slug Generator turns titles and free text into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs — the readable part of a web address, such as on-page-seo-checklist in example.com/on-page-seo-checklist. It transliterates accented characters to plain ASCII (so “Café” becomes “cafe”), strips punctuation and symbols, collapses spaces, and joins the words with the separator you choose. As a text to slug converter it works live: type a title and the slug appears instantly below it with a one-click copy button.

There are two modes. Single title mode converts one heading at a time with a live preview. Batch mode is a bulk url slug generator: paste a whole list of titles, one per line, and get back one slug per line, ready to copy all at once — handy when you are planning a content calendar or migrating a set of pages. Everything runs locally in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Why it matters for SEO

The slug is a small but visible part of every page. It appears in the search result, in shared links, in browser history and in any place the raw URL is shown. A clear slug tells both people and search engines what the page is about before they even click. A messy one — full of query strings, dates, ID numbers or random characters — looks untrustworthy, gets truncated awkwardly, and wastes the chance to reinforce the page’s topic.

A good slug also has a modest direct benefit: the words in a URL are one of the many signals a search engine reads when judging relevance. They will never outweigh strong content, but a descriptive, keyword-bearing slug is a free, easy win. Just as important, a readable URL earns more clicks when people see it in the wild — in a chat message, a forum post or a printed reference — because it looks like a real page about a real topic.

How to use it

1. Choose a mode: Single title for one slug, or Batch to convert a list.
2. Type or paste your title. In single mode the slug previews live below the input; in batch mode each line becomes its own slug.
3. Pick a word separator — hyphen (recommended) or underscore.
4. Toggle Lowercase on for standard, consistent URLs.
5. Optionally toggle Remove stopwords to drop filler words like “a” and “the” for a tighter, more keyword-focused slug.
6. Use the Maximum length slider to cap the slug; it trims on a word boundary. Leave it at zero for no limit.
7. Click Copy slug (single) or Copy all (batch) to grab the result.

SEO best practices

Keep slugs short and descriptive — a few meaningful words that match what the page is genuinely about. Always lowercase them: mixed-case URLs can create duplicate-content confusion on case-sensitive servers. Use hyphens as the word separator, never underscores, because search engines treat hyphens as spaces and underscores as glue. Drop stopwords and filler so the keywords stand out. Decide on a consistent style across your whole site so every URL looks like it belongs to the same place. And set the slug once, before publishing, so you never have to change a live URL.

Common mistakes to avoid

The most common mistake is underscores instead of hyphens — it quietly hurts how the words are parsed. Others include slugs that are far too long, slugs stuffed with every keyword imaginable, dates or ID numbers baked into the slug for no reader benefit, and leaving the default messy slug a CMS generates from a long title. Avoid changing the slug of a ranking page without a 301 redirect, which breaks links and discards accumulated authority. Finally, do not rely on non-ASCII characters or spaces in a slug; they get percent-encoded into an ugly, unreadable string — this slugify tool removes that risk for you.

Privacy & your data

Your titles and text never leave your browser. The transliteration, cleanup and slug assembly all run in JavaScript on your device. Nothing is uploaded to a server, nothing is saved between visits, and nothing you type — in single or batch mode — is logged or tracked. When you close the tab, the data is gone. That makes this URL slug generator safe to use for unpublished pages, draft titles and confidential content plans you would rather keep off the internet.