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Slug Generator

URL-friendly text converter

How to use Slug Generator

  1. Type or paste a title in single mode, or switch to batch mode for multiple items.
  2. Adjust separator, length, and stop-word removal as needed.
  3. Copy individual slugs or export all as CSV.

Slug design for SEO

A URL slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page. 'https://site.com/blog/how-to-slug' has 'how-to-slug' as the slug. Good slugs are short, descriptive, lowercase, and use hyphens to separate words — this matches how search engines and users expect URLs to look.

Stop word removal (the, a, of, etc.) can make slugs more concise but is controversial — some SEO experts argue keeping them slightly improves clarity. The safest approach is to remove them only when the slug is otherwise too long.

For non-English titles, transliterate to ASCII so URLs stay clean and predictable. 'Rezumat pentru CV-ul meu' becomes 'rezumat-pentru-cv-ul-meu' — readable, shareable, and indexable across all search engines.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "transliteration" mean?
Converting characters from one script to approximate ASCII equivalents. For example, "café" becomes "cafe", "Łódź" becomes "lodz", "München" becomes "munchen". This makes URLs readable across browsers and platforms even when the original text is in another language.
Why can't I just use the original characters in URLs?
You can, but URLs with non-ASCII characters get percent-encoded, making them harder to read and share. "naïve" becomes "na%C3%AFve" in the URL bar. Transliteration produces clean, human-readable URLs.
What about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.?
Full transliteration of non-Latin scripts is complex. This tool does a best-effort basic conversion — for example, stripping diacritics and converting characters like ø, å, ß. For scripts like Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic, the original characters are preserved. You may want a specialized library for those cases.
Can I process many strings at once?
Yes. In batch mode, each line becomes a separate slug. Perfect for generating URLs for a list of article titles, product names, or tags.