Free Slug Generator – Turn Titles Into Clean SEO-Friendly URLs

A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like the ‘how-to-bake-bread’ in a recipe link. Clean slugs help visitors trust your links, help search engines understand your topic, and are far easier to share than auto-generated strings of numbers and symbols. Our free slug generator converts any title or phrase into a tidy URL slug in one click: lowercase letters, words separated by hyphens, accents converted to plain letters, and stop words optionally removed to keep the address short.

Quick Answer: Type a title and the slug generator instantly returns a clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slug. You can remove stop words, set a maximum length and convert accented characters automatically.

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Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug.

Page or article title

Your domain (optional)

Maximum length (0 = unlimited)

Remove stop words (a, the, and, of, for, to, in, on, at, by, with)

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How to Use the Slug Generator

Paste your page or article title into the input box.
Choose your options: remove stop words like ‘the’ and ‘and’ for a shorter slug, and set a maximum length if your CMS needs one.
Review the generated slug shown below the form.
Click Copy Slug and paste it into your CMS URL field before publishing.
If you are changing an existing URL, remember to set up a redirect from the old address to the new one.

Key Features

Automatic conversion to lowercase, hyphen-separated, URL-safe text.
Accented characters are transliterated, so ‘café’ becomes ‘cafe’ instead of broken encoding.
Optional stop-word removal and maximum-length trimming that never cuts a word in half.
Live preview of the full URL when you add your domain name.
Batch-friendly: generate, copy and repeat for a whole list of titles in seconds.

Best Practices and Tips

Keep slugs short but descriptive: three to five meaningful words usually beat a full copied headline.
Use the primary keyword in the slug, but never stuff extra keywords; one topic per URL reads better and ranks better.
Decide on a slug style (with or without stop words) and apply it consistently across the whole site.
Never change a live slug without a 301 redirect, or you will lose the page’s backlinks and search history.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Copying the entire article title into the URL, producing a long address that gets truncated when shared.
Using underscores or spaces instead of hyphens; search engines treat hyphens as word separators and underscores as joins.
Including dates or words like ‘best’ that will make the URL look outdated when you update the content next year.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes a slug SEO-friendly?

A good slug is short, lowercase, hyphenated and contains the words that describe the page’s topic, ideally including the main keyword once. It contains no special characters, no capital letters and no unnecessary words.

Should I remove stop words from my slug?

Removing words like ‘a’, ‘the’ and ‘of’ makes URLs shorter and cleaner, and it does not hurt rankings. It is a style choice: pick one approach and stay consistent across your site.

What is the best length for a slug?

There is no hard limit, but slugs of roughly 3 to 5 words (around 30 to 50 characters) are easiest to read, share and remember. Very long slugs are often truncated in search results and social shares.

Can a slug contain numbers?

Yes. Numbers are fine when they are meaningful, such as a year in an annual guide or a model number in a product page. Avoid random ID numbers that tell visitors nothing about the page.

What happens if two pages get the same slug?

Your CMS will usually append a number, like ‘-2’, to the second one. It is better to make each slug unique yourself by adding a distinguishing word, which keeps URLs clean and meaningful.