SEO Slug Generator — Clean, URL-Ready Slugs Instantly
Google explicitly recommends short, descriptive, hyphen-separated URLs. The Slug Generator converts "10 Best PDF Tools 🎉 (2026)" into "10-best-pdf-tools" — lowercasing, transliterating accents (é→e), deleting emoji and punctuation, collapsing repeated hyphens and optionally removing stop words like "the" and "for". Paste the result straight into your CMS.
🔒 100% Private — runs in your browser, nothing is uploadedHow to Use This SEO Slug Generator (Step-by-Step)
- Type your title — Paste a blog post or product name.
- Toggle stop words — Optional — removes a, the, and, of for tighter slugs.
- Copy the slug — Paste into WordPress, Shopify or your static site generator.
From Title to Canonical URL — Under the Hood
The generator lowercases the string, applies Unicode NFD normalization to split accented letters into base+diacritic, strips the diacritical marks, removes everything outside a-z/0-9, converts whitespace to hyphens and trims edges. Stop-word removal uses a small built-in list of the most common English function words.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are underscores bad in URLs?
Google treats hyphens as word separators; underscores are not. Always hyphenate.
Should I keep the year in the slug?
Only if the content is genuinely year-specific — otherwise the URL ages badly.
Does slug length matter for SEO?
Yes — shorter slugs are easier to share and crawl; aim under 60 characters.