Tool 02
Slug Generator
Convert any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. Lowercases, removes special characters, replaces spaces with hyphens.
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What Is the Slug Generator?
The Slug Generator turns any headline into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug: lowercase, hyphen-separated, with special characters stripped and stop words removed. It also transliterates Cyrillic text, so a Russian headline becomes a readable Latin slug instead of percent-encoded gibberish.
URL slugs are a small but real SEO signal: they appear in search results, get read by users before clicking, and stay with the page for its whole life. A short descriptive slug is easier to link to, easier to share, and less likely to need changing later, which spares you redirects.
How to Use It
- 1Paste your page title or headline into the input field.
- 2The tool generates the slug instantly: lowercase, hyphens between words, stop words and special characters removed.
- 3Review the result and shorten it if needed: 3 to 5 meaningful words is the sweet spot.
- 4Click the copy button and use the slug in your CMS or router.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I use hyphens or underscores in URLs?
Always hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators, so red-shoes is read as "red shoes". Underscores join words: red_shoes is read as one token "red_shoes", which matches fewer queries. This is one of the few URL rules Google has stated explicitly.
Should slugs include stop words like "the" and "of"?
Usually not. Removing stop words keeps slugs short and scannable without losing meaning: how-to-use-reddit-for-seo works fine as reddit-for-seo. Keep a stop word only when removing it changes the meaning or makes the slug read strangely.
Is it safe to change the slug of a published page?
Only with a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. Without a redirect you lose the rankings, backlinks, and bookmarks the old URL earned. If the page already ranks well, the small keyword benefit of a better slug rarely justifies the risk: save slug changes for redesigns or genuinely broken URLs.