Slug Generator
Create SEO-friendly URL slugs for your blog posts and pages.
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Quick Tip
Paste or type your title.
About This Tool
Why use Slug Generator?
Turn a title into a clean URL slug: lower case, spaces and underscores replaced by hyphens, punctuation and symbols removed, and leading or trailing hyphens trimmed. "10 Best SEO Tools (2026 Guide)" becomes 10-best-seo-tools-2026-guide.
Short, readable slugs are easier to share and read in search results. Keep them to three to five meaningful words, use hyphens rather than underscores as Google recommends, and leave dates out unless the page is genuinely tied to one — otherwise you will want to change the URL later, which costs you the links pointing at it.
Key Benefits
Hyphen separated
Hyphens are treated as word separators by search engines; underscores are not.
Punctuation stripped
Brackets, quotes and symbols are removed so the URL never needs percent-encoding.
Instant preview
See the slug as you edit the title, which makes trimming it straightforward.
How to use Slug Generator
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Paste or type your title.
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Read the generated slug.
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Shorten it by removing filler words that add nothing.
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Copy it into your CMS before publishing, not after.
Best use cases
Create a URL for a new blog post.
Standardise slugs across an existing site.
Generate category or tag URLs from names.
Clean up a slug that a CMS built badly from a long title.
Slug Generator FAQs
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a URL?
Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so word_two reads as a single token.
How long should a slug be?
Three to five meaningful words is a good target. Drop articles and filler; the slug should read like a short title.
Should slugs include dates or numbers?
Only if the page is genuinely tied to one. Dated slugs make evergreen content look stale and force a URL change when you update it.
Can I change a slug after publishing?
You can, but set up a 301 redirect from the old URL. Without one you lose the value of every link pointing at the old address.
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