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URL Slug Generator

Convert titles, headlines, and keyword lists into clean URL slugs with separator, stop word, number, and length options.

Slug options

How to use this URL slug generator

  1. Paste one title, headline, product name, or keyword phrase per line.
  2. Choose hyphens or underscores, then turn stop word and number removal on or off.
  3. Optionally add a prefix, suffix, or max length for CMS and SEO conventions.
  4. Copy the generated slug or bulk list into your website, blog, store, or campaign workflow.

URL Slug Generator features

  • Generate URL slugs from titles, headlines, product names, keywords, or bulk lists.
  • Choose hyphens or underscores as word separators.
  • Convert output to lowercase or preserve original casing.
  • Set a maximum slug length for CMS and SEO constraints.
  • Add optional prefixes and suffixes.
  • Customize the stop-word list.
  • Remove stop words when creating shorter slugs.
  • Remove numbers when dates or rankings should not appear in URLs.
  • Transliterate accented characters into URL-friendly text.
  • Trim incomplete words after applying max length.
  • Make duplicate slugs unique automatically.
  • Copy a single slug or a bulk slug list.

What makes a good URL slug?

A good slug is short, readable, and stable. It usually uses lowercase words separated by hyphens, removes punctuation, and keeps the most meaningful terms from the page title.

For marketing pages, product pages, and blog posts, avoid dates or version numbers unless they are part of the permanent topic. Clean slugs are easier to scan in search results, analytics reports, and shared links.

How slugs are generated

The generator normalizes each input line in the browser, optionally folds accented characters, removes punctuation, removes configured stop words and numbers, joins the remaining words with your chosen separator, trims repeated separators, and applies prefix, suffix, duplicate numbering, and length limits.

URL slug generator FAQ

Should URL slugs use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens are the common default for readable web URLs. Underscores are available when a system or naming convention requires them.
Should I remove stop words?
Remove stop words when you want shorter slugs, but keep them if removing them changes the meaning or readability of the title.
Can I generate multiple slugs at once?
Yes. Put each title or keyword phrase on its own line. Duplicate output can be numbered automatically.

Choose a slug that can remain stable

A slug is the readable path segment in a URL. It should help a person recognize the page without trying to reproduce the entire title. Keep the words that distinguish the page, remove filler only when meaning remains clear, and avoid adding a date unless the page is truly tied to that date.

Lowercase ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens are broadly convenient, but a modern URL can contain many Unicode characters. The right choice depends on the site's routing, publishing system, language, and redirect support. The WHATWG URL Standard defines browser URL parsing; it does not prescribe an editorial slug style.

Transliteration can make a path easier to type on some keyboards, but it can also remove meaning from names and non-Latin languages. Review generated output with a fluent editor when the source is not simple English. Do not assume that deleting every unfamiliar character is more accessible or more respectful.

A stop-word option is a space-saving tool, not a rule. Removing “to,” “for,” “with,” or “how” can create an awkward or ambiguous phrase. Read the slug aloud and compare it with nearby paths. Keep a word when it prevents two pages from receiving nearly identical URLs.

Do not place private data, unpublished project names, email addresses, customer identifiers, or secrets in a slug. URLs appear in logs, browser history, analytics, previews, referrers, and shared screenshots. Access control does not make the path itself confidential.

Check reserved paths and collisions before publishing. A generated slug might already belong to an older page, category, asset, locale, API route, or framework endpoint. Case-insensitive filesystems and deployment platforms can also collapse paths that looked distinct during development.

Once a public URL earns links and bookmarks, stability usually matters more than a minor wording improvement. If a change is necessary, add a permanent redirect from the old URL, update canonical and internal links, and keep the redirect in place. Avoid chains in which an old URL redirects through several historical slugs.

Before accepting the output, inspect length, word boundaries, repeated separators, leading or trailing punctuation, numbers, and file-like suffixes. Paste the full URL into the actual site and test it on a case-sensitive production-like environment. This generator prepares text; it cannot know the router's constraints or whether the destination exists.

Pre-publish checklist

  • Read the generated path as a person would and restore any removed word needed to distinguish the topic or make the phrase grammatical.
  • Confirm lowercase, separator, transliteration, number, and maximum-length rules match the actual router and editorial policy.
  • Review non-English names and terms with a fluent editor rather than assuming ASCII transliteration preserves meaning.
  • Check the proposed path against existing pages, redirects, categories, assets, locales, API endpoints, and reserved framework routes.
  • Remove personal information, internal project names, secrets, and time-sensitive labels that should not remain in a public URL.
  • Test the full URL in a production-like case-sensitive environment and confirm encoding, canonical tags, navigation, sharing previews, and analytics.
  • If replacing a public slug, add one direct permanent redirect, update internal and canonical links, and avoid a redirect chain.
  • Keep the stable public path when the only benefit of a change is a minor wording preference.
  • Save a canonical source form so future formats are generated from one value instead of repeatedly transforming an already shortened slug.
  • Search site navigation and the sitemap for near-duplicate destinations that should be consolidated rather than published again.
  • Keep words that disambiguate an audience, format, unit, location, or version when the broader phrase already names another page.
  • Review social previews and copied plain-text URLs so the path remains understandable outside the page's immediate navigation.
  • Document ownership of permanent redirects and monitor crawl errors after launch instead of removing old paths during routine cleanup.
  • Confirm sitemap, breadcrumb, structured data, hreflang, feed, and sharing URLs all use the same canonical path after publication.
  • Avoid a slug that implies an unsupported format, free offer, year, location, or audience merely because that phrase receives searches.

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