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URL Slug Generator
Input
Enter title text and generate a clean, URL-safe slug.
Use lowercase words with hyphens for SEO-friendly URLs.
Result
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an SEO slug?
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.
What transformations does this tool apply?
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.
Should slugs include stop words like 'the', 'a', 'is'?
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.