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URL Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, SEO friendly URL slug. Pick a separator, strip accents and stop words, and keep slugs short and readable.

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Last updated: March 25, 2026

Created by: Eon Tools Dev Team

Reviewed by: Prabindra Tamang


What this tool does

The slug is the readable tail end of a web address, the part after the last slash that names the page, like best-practices-for-seo. This tool turns a title into a clean slug, stripping out the spaces, capitals, and punctuation that do not belong in a URL, so you get a tidy, shareable address ready to use.

How to use it

  1. Type or paste your title, such as "10 Best Practices for SEO."
  2. Choose a word separator (use the hyphen), and tick the options you want: convert to lowercase, and remove common stop words.
  3. Set a maximum length if you want to keep it short, then copy the generated slug.

How it works

The tool takes your title and cleans it step by step: it lowercases the text, swaps the spaces for your chosen separator, removes punctuation and accented characters that would break or clutter a URL, optionally drops common filler words, and trims the result to your maximum length. What comes out is a slug made only of safe, readable characters.

What makes a good slug

The most important choice is the separator: use hyphens, not underscores. Google reads a hyphen as a space between words, so best-practices is understood as two words, while an underscore joins them, so best_practices reads as the single word "bestpractices." That one detail is why hyphens are the standard. Beyond that, keep the slug short and readable, include your main keyword since the words in a URL give a small, honest hint of the topic, stay lowercase to avoid case mix-ups, and drop filler words that add length without meaning.

One caution worth taking seriously: be careful changing the slug of a page that is already published. The URL is its address on the web, so changing it breaks every existing link and bookmark and can lose the ranking the old URL had built up, unless you set up a redirect (a 301) from the old address to the new one. So get the slug right before you publish, and change a live one only with a redirect in place. To check the title that goes with it, the title length checker helps, and the keyword density checker covers the body copy.

Questions people ask

Should I use hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so hyphenated slugs are read as separate words, which is what you want.

Should I put my keyword in the slug?

Yes, where it fits naturally. The words in a URL give search engines and readers a small clue about the page. Keep it concise rather than cramming in every keyword.

Can I change a URL after publishing?

You can, but with care. Changing it breaks existing links and can cost you the page's ranking unless you add a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. Set the slug before publishing where possible.

What makes a good slug?

Short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, readable, and built around your main keyword without filler. A visitor should be able to guess what the page is about from the URL alone.

References

  1. Google Search Central. Keep a simple URL structure. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/url-structure

Prabindra Tamang

Prabindra Tamang works in digital marketing and business development, with experience across campaigns, communications, and event execution. His strengths are in how digital content is presented, discovered, and made useful in practice. At Eon Tools, he reviews SEO tools.

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