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URL Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. Handles accents, emojis, and stop words.
Slug
how-to-build-21-calculator-tools-in-one-weekend-with52 characters10 words
Example URL
https://yourdomain.com/blog/how-to-build-21-calculator-tools-in-one-weekend-withCleaner slugs, better SEO
A clean slug helps both Google and your readers. We lowercase, strip accents (Unicode NFD), remove emojis and special chars, replace spaces with hyphens, and optionally drop common English stop words. Set a max length to truncate cleanly at word boundaries.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?▾
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL — the bit after the domain. For "https://example.com/best-pizza-recipes", the slug is "best-pizza-recipes". Good slugs are short, descriptive, and use only lowercase letters and hyphens.
What are the rules for a good slug?▾
Lowercase only. Use hyphens (-) instead of spaces or underscores. Strip accents (café → cafe), drop emojis and special characters, remove "stop words" (the, of, and) for SEO if you can. Keep it under 60 characters when possible.
Hyphens vs underscores in URLs?▾
Use hyphens. Google explicitly treats hyphens as word separators (best-pizza = "best pizza") and underscores as joiners (best_pizza = "bestpizza"). Hyphens win for SEO and readability.
Should I include stop words?▾
It depends. For SEO, removing stop words ("the", "of", "and") makes slugs shorter and arguably keyword-dense. For readability and matching search queries, keeping them sounds more natural. We let you toggle.
Can I use this for filenames?▾
Yes — the same rules that make a good URL slug make a good filename: no spaces, no special characters, lowercase, hyphens. Especially useful for naming photos, exports, and shared docs.