URL Slug Generator

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page. For example, in /blog/my-article-title, "my-article-title" is the slug. Good slugs improve SEO and user experience.

Short, descriptive, lowercase, with words separated by hyphens. Remove stop words (a, the, and), special characters, and numbers unless meaningful. Aim for under 60 characters.

Generally no — dates make content look outdated and prevent evergreen URLs. Numbers are fine if they're part of the content identity (like a product SKU). For blog posts, omit the date from the slug. Use your CMS's redirect feature if you change slugs later.

Descriptive, readable slugs tell users what the page is about before they click. A messy slug with IDs and parameters looks less trustworthy than a clean human-readable slug. URLs are displayed in search results, and well-crafted slugs can increase clicks.

Yes. Unicode characters are transliterated to ASCII where possible. Accented characters are stripped of diacritics (é → e, ü → u, ñ → n). Characters without a Latin equivalent (Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic) are removed. This keeps slugs clean, readable, and URL-safe across all languages.

Google treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as word joiners. "my-post" is read as "my post" while "my_post" is read as "mypost". Always use hyphens for SEO.