Slug Generator

A slug is the last part of a URL that names the page, such as /blog/how-to-write-a-slug/. Search engines read it, visitors glance at it before they click, and once a page has been shared or linked the slug is painful to change. Getting it right at publish time saves a redirect later. This generator takes a title and produces a slug that follows the conventions Google documents: lowercase letters, digits and hyphens only, no accents or punctuation, and no runs of hyphens.

Paste a title and the slug appears as you type. You can strip common stop words (the, a, of, and so on) to keep the slug short, cap it at a number of characters without cutting a word in half, and pick an underscore separator if an old site used one. Accented letters are transliterated, so "Café résumé" becomes cafe-resume rather than disappearing. Nothing is sent to our server; the conversion runs in your browser.

Keep slugs short and descriptive. A slug that repeats the main keyword once is enough; stuffing three variations in it looks spammy and gets truncated in search results. Dates and numbers that will go stale ("2024-guide") are best left out unless the content is tied to that year.