URL Slug Generator
Free URL slug generator with 4 separators (hyphen, underscore, dot, plus) and 2 case styles. Live preview, length check, stop-word filter, and diacritics removal. Clean, keyword-rich slugs for SEO. 100% private, runs in your browser.
-https://yoursite.com/hello-world-10-tips-for-seo-success-in-2026-the-complete-guiHow it works
A short, focused workflow — input, run, read the result.
Type or paste a title
Drop a blog post title, product name, or any phrase into the input. The slug updates instantly.
Pick separator, case, and max length
Defaults are kebab-case (hyphens), all-lowercase, and a 60-character cap. Adjust if you need snake_case for code, period-separated for static files, or a different length budget.
Copy the slug (or the full URL preview)
Click Copy on the slug to grab just the slug, or use the suggested URL at the bottom as a reference for the path pattern.
Use it in your CMS
Paste the slug into your CMS's permalink / URL field. Most CMSes (WordPress, Ghost, Webflow) auto-generate from the title, but this gives you a manual override for tricky cases.
What is a URL slug, and why does a clean slug help both readers and Google?
A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page. For serpview.com/tools/url-slug-generator the slug is 'url-slug-generator'. Clean slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated, and short. They help readers scan your link in chat and search results, and they give Google a clear signal about the page topic.
What this URL slug generator does
Every transformation that turns a title into a clean, rankable URL slug.
- Hyphen separator — joins words with hyphens, the Google-recommended word separator for public URLs.
- Lowercase output — forces every character to lowercase, since most servers treat URLs as case-sensitive.
- Diacritics removal — strips accents and special characters (café becomes cafe, naïve becomes naive).
- Stop-word filter — removes common filler words (a, the, and, of, in) unless they are the primary keyword, like 'how to'.
- Max length cap — enforces a configurable character limit, defaulting to 60 to match the typical top-ranking post length.
- Special character strip — removes punctuation and URL-unsafe characters that would otherwise get percent-encoded.
- Separator choice — switch between hyphens, underscores, periods, or no separator for code-style slugs.
- Live URL preview — renders the full path with your slug so you can see exactly what the published URL will look like.
Who uses this URL slug generator
Anyone who has to ship a clean permalink faster than the CMS auto-generator does it.
You write 3 posts a week and WordPress is generating slugs with stop words and post IDs you don't want.
Generate the clean slug here, paste it into the permalink field, and override the auto-generated version.
You're publishing 200 product pages this quarter and need consistent slug structure across the catalog.
Standardize the format (kebab-case, 60-char cap, no stop words) and apply the same rule to every product.
You're writing a static site and need URL slugs for 1,000 markdown files that match the existing routing.
Use the script-friendly separator options to generate slugs that line up with the framework's expectations.
You inherited 80 blog posts with messy slugs full of dates and categories, and you want to clean them up.
Regenerate each slug, set up 301 redirects from the old URLs, and consolidate link equity in the process.
You're launching a campaign and need a clean, keyword-rich slug for the landing page that fits the URL pattern.
Type the title, pick the separator, copy the slug, and ship the page without the marketing team's input being a bottleneck.
You manage 12 client sites and need to enforce a consistent slug policy across all of them.
Use the same tool with the same settings to generate slugs that meet the agency's style guide every time.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Everything you need to know about url slug generator.
A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in human-readable form, the text after your domain name. For example, in https://serpview.com/tools/url-slug-generator, the slug is 'url-slug-generator'. Slugs are part of the URL path, not the domain, and they should be lowercase, hyphen-separated, and free of special characters. Search engines and readers both prefer clean, keyword-rich slugs.
Small factor. Google's John Mueller has said URLs are 'a very minor' ranking signal, but a clean slug improves click-through rate (people scan URLs before clicking) and reduces ambiguity for crawlers. The 2025 Backlinko study of 11.8M search results found a small but positive correlation between short, keyword-rich slugs and ranking position. The biggest SEO win is including your primary keyword and avoiding stop words ('a', 'the', 'and') that add length without value.
Hyphens. Google explicitly recommends hyphens to separate words in URLs. Matt Cutts confirmed in 2016 that Google treats hyphens as word separators but does not always do the same with underscores. WordPress, the largest CMS, uses hyphens by default. Use underscores only in code (variable names, file names within a project) where they're a language convention, never in public URLs.
Aim for 3-5 words, 50-60 characters max. The longer the slug, the less weight each word carries for the reader scanning it, and the easier it is to truncate in chat / social shares. Yoast's official guidance: keep slugs under 75 characters. Brian Clark of Copyblogger found the average top-ranking post slug is 52 characters. Use our max-length control to enforce your own cap.
No, in most cases. Stop words add length without value and don't help your readers scan the URL. Strip 'a', 'the', 'and', 'of', 'in', 'on' unless removing them makes the slug confusing. The exception is when a stop word is the *primary keyword*, 'how to' queries often include 'to' because users actually search for 'how to do X'. In that case, keep it.
Yes on both. Completely free, no signup, no daily limit. 100% private: every transformation runs in your browser. Your titles are never sent to our servers, never logged, never used to train any AI. Open DevTools → Network while you type: zero outbound requests carry your input.
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