Slug Generator
A slug is the URL-friendly part of a web address — the bit after your domain, like the coffee-shops-in-new-york inyoursite.com/coffee-shops-in-new-york. Type or paste any title below and this tool instantly turns it into a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug ready to drop into a URL.
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Why This Tool Matters
A blogger finishes writing a post titled "10 Best Coffee Shops in New York!" and needs a URL that doesn't include the exclamation point or capital letters. An e-commerce seller is adding fifty new product pages and needs every URL formatted the same way, without typos or inconsistent casing creeping in one by one. A developer is generating slugs for a CMS or database and wants a predictable, repeatable rule instead of hand-editing each string. This tool handles the lowercasing, character stripping, and hyphenation in one step, so every slug comes out clean and consistent — no manual typing, no guesswork.
How to Use
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Type your title
Type or paste a title or phrase into the box above.
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Pick a separator
Choose hyphen or underscore — hyphen is the SEO standard.
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Copy the slug
Copy the generated slug and drop it straight into your URL.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a URL slug?+−
Hyphens. Google explicitly treats a hyphen as a word separator when indexing a URL, but treats an underscore as joining two words together — so "coffee-shops" is read as two words while "coffee_shops" can be read as one. Hyphen is the default here for that reason; underscore is offered for cases like matching an existing database or file-naming convention.
Does this remove stop words like "a," "the," or "and"?+−
No. This tool only lowercases, strips special characters, and swaps spaces for your chosen separator — it keeps every word you typed, including short connector words. If you want a shorter slug, remove stop words from the title yourself before generating it.
Will this handle special characters like accented letters (é, ñ, ü)?+−
Yes. Accented letters are converted to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent — é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ü becomes u — instead of being stripped out entirely, so a title like "Café à Paris" becomes "cafe-a-paris" rather than losing those words altogether.
Is there an ideal length for a URL slug for SEO?+−
Shorter is generally better — most guidance suggests keeping a slug well under 60 characters so it displays cleanly in search results and stays easy to read and share. There’s no strict cutoff, though, and a clear, descriptive slug that runs a bit longer usually beats an unclear one that’s artificially short.