🔗 SEO Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug.

Page title

Slug

📋 How to Use

1. Paste your article or page title into the input field.
2. The tool strips punctuation, lowercases everything and replaces spaces with hyphens automatically.
3. Copy the resulting slug straight into your URL field.

✅ Features

Automatically removes stop-characters and special symbols that break URLs.
Keeps slugs short and hyphen-separated, the format search engines prefer.
Handles accented characters by transliterating them into plain ASCII.

What is a URL slug?

The slug is the readable part at the end of a web address that identifies a page. In example.com/guides/how-to-compress-pdf, the slug is how-to-compress-pdf. A clean slug helps both visitors and search engines understand the page before they open it.

Best practices for SEO-friendly slugs

Use lower-case letters and hyphens between words.
Keep it short — 3 to 5 meaningful words is usually enough.
Include the main keyword.
Remove filler words like "a", "the" and "and" when they add nothing.
Avoid dates and numbers that will become outdated, unless they are essential.

Changing a slug later

Try to choose the right slug before publishing. If you must change it later, set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one, otherwise existing links and rankings for that page will be lost.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should my URL slug match my page title exactly?

It doesn't need to — shorter is usually better. A slug like /best-pdf-tools works better than the full title turned into a URL, since shorter, keyword-focused slugs are easier to read and share.

Can I change a page's slug after it's already published?

You can, but it changes the URL, which means old links and search rankings pointing at the previous URL will break unless you set up a redirect from the old slug to the new one.