Question 1

What is an SEO slug?

Accepted Answer

A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a readable format: /how-to-bake-sourdough-bread. Good slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated, free of special characters, and descriptive of the page content. They improve both usability and SEO.

Question 2

What transformations does this tool apply?

Accepted Answer

Lowercasing all characters, replacing spaces and underscores with hyphens, removing special characters and punctuation, collapsing multiple hyphens into one, trimming leading/trailing hyphens, and optionally transliterating Unicode characters to ASCII equivalents.

Question 3

Should slugs include stop words like 'the', 'a', 'is'?

Accepted Answer

Generally no. Removing stop words keeps slugs shorter and more focused on keywords. 'best-practices-react' is preferable to 'the-best-practices-for-react'. However, if removing stops creates ambiguity or awkward phrasing, keeping them is acceptable.

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