URL Slug Generator

The URL Slug Generator turns any headline, product name, or phrase into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug in one click. Slugs are the human-readable part of a URL after the domain and any path prefix — for example, "how-to-calculate-emi" in https://yoursite.com/blog/how-to-calculate-emi. They matter more than most people realise: short, keyword-rich, hyphenated slugs are easier to remember, look more trustworthy in search results, get shared more on social media, and give search engines an extra hint about page topic. The tool lowercases the input, strips accents and diacritics (café → cafe), removes punctuation and special characters, collapses whitespace, and joins remaining words with your chosen separator. Google explicitly recommends hyphens over underscores because it treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners — meaning "seo_tips" reads as one token to a crawler, while "seo-tips" reads as two. Unless you have a specific reason to do otherwise, always use hyphens. Good slugs are short: aim for three to five meaningful words. Overly long slugs get truncated in search results, are harder to type and share, and dilute the keyword signal. Remove filler stop words like "a", "the", "of", "to", and "for" unless they meaningfully change meaning. "guide-seo-tools" is better than "a-guide-to-the-best-seo-tools". Include your primary keyword near the beginning of the slug — search engines weight earlier tokens slightly higher. Avoid a few common mistakes. Never include dates in evergreen post slugs — a slug like "/2023/top-tips" ages poorly and hurts long-term rankings when you refresh the article. Avoid stop-word soup, deep folder nesting (three levels max), uppercase letters (which create duplicate URLs on case-sensitive servers), and query strings for content pages. If you change a slug after publishing, always set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one to preserve backlinks and rankings. Use this tool for blog post URLs, product handles in Shopify or WooCommerce, documentation page paths, category slugs, tag pages, and marketing landing pages. Combine it with the Meta Tag Generator for on-page SEO, the SERP Preview to visualise the final search snippet, and the Sitemap Generator to notify search engines of new URLs. Everything is generated locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded or logged.