Slug Generator

Convert titles into clean, lowercase, hyphenated URL slugs.

What Does the Slug Generator Do?

The Slug Generator turns any title or phrase into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug: lowercase, hyphen-separated words with accents converted to plain letters and all punctuation stripped. Type "10 Best Cafés in São Paulo — 2026 Guide!" and instantly get 10-best-cafes-in-sao-paulo-2026-guide, ready to paste into your CMS.

The tool also offers underscore separators, an optional maximum length that cuts cleanly at word boundaries, and a stop-word filter that drops small connector words (a, the, of, in…) for shorter, keyword-dense slugs.

How to Use the Slug Generator

  1. Type or paste your page title into the box.
  2. The slug appears instantly below — no button needed.
  3. Optionally switch the separator, set a max length or enable stop-word removal.
  4. Click Copy and paste the slug into your CMS, e-commerce platform or router config.

Why Slugs Matter for SEO

  • Readability — /best-coffee-shops-new-york/ tells users and search engines what the page is about; /p?id=8241 tells them nothing.
  • Keywords — search engines give some weight to words in the URL, and readable URLs get more clicks in search results.
  • Portability — accents and special characters can break when URLs are shared; ASCII slugs survive email clients, chat apps and QR codes intact.
  • Consistency — one slug style across your site looks professional and avoids duplicate-URL headaches.

Hyphens are the recommended separator: Google treats hyphens as word boundaries but treats underscores as word joiners, so blue-widgets is understood as two words while blue_widgets may be read as one.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to accented characters like é or ñ?

They are transliterated to their plain ASCII equivalents — é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ü becomes u — so the slug is safe in every browser, server and sharing context.

Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?

Hyphens. Google explicitly recommends them because hyphens are treated as word separators, while underscores are not. Use the underscore option only when a system requires it.

What does the stop-word option remove?

Common connector words like "a", "an", "the", "of", "in" and "to". Removing them makes slugs shorter and more keyword-focused — "the-best-of-the-city" becomes "best-city".

Does the max-length option cut words in half?

No. When a limit is set, the slug is trimmed back to the last complete word that fits, so you never get a chopped fragment at the end.