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URL Slug Generator

Turn a headline into a clean URL slug — lowercase, hyphenated, and free of accents and punctuation. Optionally strip common stop words to keep it short.

Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Your URL

azharrasheedseo.com/your-page-slug

How to use this tool

  1. Type or paste your page title.
  2. Toggle stop-word removal if you want a shorter slug.
  3. Copy the slug into your CMS.

What is URL Slug Generator?

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL after the domain. It appears in search results, gets copied into messages and emails, and is one of the few parts of a URL a person actually reads.

Short, descriptive slugs are easier to share and read. They are a minor ranking signal at best — but a URL full of query strings and IDs looks untrustworthy in a search result, and that affects whether people click.

Best practices

  • Keep it short — three to five meaningful words is plenty.
  • Use hyphens, never underscores or spaces.
  • Include the primary keyword naturally; do not stuff it.
  • Once a URL is published and indexed, changing it costs you unless you add a 301 redirect.
  • Avoid dates in slugs for evergreen content — they make it look stale.

Frequently asked questions

Should I remove stop words from slugs?

Usually yes for length, but not when removing them makes the slug read strangely. "how-to-fix-slow-website" is clearer than "fix-slow-website" if the page is genuinely a how-to guide.

Can I change a slug after publishing?

You can, but the old URL will 404 and lose any rankings and links it has earned unless you set up a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one.

How does this handle accented characters?

They are converted to their closest plain equivalents — "café" becomes "cafe" — because non-ASCII characters get percent-encoded in URLs and become unreadable.

Want this done properly on your site?

These tools handle the checks. If you would rather someone did the work — the audit, the fixes and the content — that is what I do.

Results are provided for informational purposes and may vary depending on the website, browser, network and available data.