URL Slug Generator

Paste a title, get a clean URL slug: lowercase, hyphenated, accent-folded and free of characters that need percent-encoding. Updates as you type.

What makes a good slug

The slug is the part of the URL after the domain - /tools/slug-generator/ in this page's address. Search engines read it, users read it in search results before they decide to click, and it appears in every shared link. Three properties matter:

• Readable words beat identifiers. /products/cafe-grinder-pro tells a shopper something; /products/p-8842 tells them nothing. Descriptive slugs also accumulate keyword relevance for long-tail searches.
• Hyphens, not underscores. Search engines have treated hyphens as word separators for years; underscores join words together. When in doubt, keep the default.
• Short, but not at the cost of meaning. Three to six meaningful words is a good zone. The stop-word option trims filler like "a", "to", "and" - useful for long editorial titles, but turn it off if removal changes the meaning.

Usage example

A blog post titled "10 Proven Ways to Reduce Shipping Costs in 2026" becomes 10-proven-ways-reduce-shipping-costs-2026 with stop words removed - shorter than the raw title but every ranking keyword still present. For a product called "Café Grinder Pro™ (Matte Black)", the accent folding and trademark handling give cafe-grinder-pro-matte-black instead of a string full of %20 and â„¢.

The generator also strips emoji, quotes, ampersands and any character outside letters and digits, so the output is always safe to paste into a CMS, a static site generator or an nginx config without escaping worries.

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