The Slug Generator converts arbitrary text (headlines, product names, article titles) into clean, URL-safe slugs. Pick a style — kebab-case, snake_case, dot.case, camelCase, PascalCase, or fully concatenated — and the tool strips accents, collapses whitespace, removes punctuation, and (optionally) drops stopwords like the, a, and of. Paste multiple lines to generate slugs in bulk; every result stays in your browser and can be copied individually or all at once.
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — for example, how-to-bake-sourdough in example.com/blog/how-to-bake-sourdough. Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, and describe the page in a few keywords. Search engines use them as a soft ranking signal and, more importantly, users use them as a preview of what the page is about before they click.
How this generator works
- Paste your title (or multiple titles, one per line) into the input box.
- The tool normalises the text: it strips accented characters (á → a), splits camelCase and PascalCase words at their boundaries, and drops every non-alphanumeric character.
- Whatever's left is split into words. If you enabled stopword removal, common English filler words (the, a, of, and, …) are dropped.
- The words are re-joined using the separator (or casing) of your chosen style, then optionally truncated at the last word before your max-length cap.
Which slug style should I use?
kebab-case (hello-world) is the SEO standard for URLs — Google treats hyphens as word separators, so my-new-post reads as three words. This is what you want for blog posts, product pages, and category pages.
snake_case (hello_world) is common in file names and database columns. Google reads underscores as joiners, not separators, so avoid them in public URLs.
camelCase and PascalCase are code-side conventions (variable names, class names). They're not appropriate for URLs but useful when generating identifiers programmatically.
dot.case shows up in some file naming schemes and version identifiers.
SEO best practices for slugs
- Keep it short. Aim for 3–5 words. Long slugs get truncated in SERPs and are harder to share.
- Include your primary keyword. The slug is one of the strongest on-page signals — a mismatch between slug and content is a wasted opportunity.
- Drop stopwords selectively. Removing the/a/of shortens the slug without losing meaning — but keep them if removing them changes the meaning.
- Use hyphens, not underscores. Google treats hyphens as word separators. Underscores glue words together.
- Don't stuff keywords. Repeating a keyword in the slug (
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Bulk mode for content migrations and CMS imports
Paste one string per line and the tool switches to bulk mode, generating a slug for each line and copying the whole list to your clipboard with one click. This is how most people use it in practice: migrating from one CMS to another, generating slugs for a spreadsheet of upcoming articles, or backfilling slugs for a data import. Everything stays in your browser — no line of text is ever sent to a server — so you can safely paste unpublished titles or client-confidential data.