URL Slug Generator
Type a headline and watch it become a clean, lowercase, search-friendly URL slug — accents stripped, punctuation gone, words joined the right way. Tune it, then copy.
Why slugs matter for SEO
The slug is the human-readable tail of your URL, and it's a small but real ranking and click-through signal. A clean slug with your target keyword tells both people and search engines what the page is about before they even click. Keep it short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, and free of dates or session junk — and once a URL is live and indexed, avoid changing it without a 301 redirect.
The slug is only part of the URL
A clean slug helps most when the rest of the path is tidy too. Keep your folder depth shallow — /blog/post-title beats /2026/05/28/category/post-title — and don't repeat words the path already contains (skip /marketing/marketing-tips). Leave dates out of the slug so an evergreen article doesn't look stale next year, and never reshuffle your URL structure on a whim: every live URL that changes needs a 301 redirect, or you lose the rankings and links it has earned.
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Frequently asked questions
What makes a good URL slug?
A good slug is short, lowercase, readable, and uses hyphens between words. It should describe the page, include your main keyword, and drop filler words and punctuation. Hyphens are preferred over underscores because search engines treat hyphens as word separators.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in URLs?
Use hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but reads underscores as joining words together, so my_blog_post is read as one token while my-blog-post is read as three words.
Should I remove stop words from slugs?
Often yes. Removing common words like a, the, and, of keeps slugs short and keyword-focused, but keep them when dropping them changes the meaning or readability of the URL.