URL Slug Generator - Clean SEO Friendly Slugs
Create clean, lowercase, SEO-friendly URL slugs with custom separators and automatic accent stripping.
How to use URL Slug Generator in 3 simple steps
Enter Title or Headline
Type or paste your article title, product name, or phrase.
Customize Options
Choose your separator (hyphen or underscore), toggle stopword removal, and set lowercase options.
Copy Slug
Click copy to paste your clean URL slug directly into your CMS or Markdown frontmatter.
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SEO Best Practices for Clean, Readable URL Slugs
Search engine crawlers and human readers strongly favor clean, descriptive URLs over messy strings containing special symbols, spaces, or query parameters. A URL like "/how-to-bake-sourdough" ranks better and achieves higher click-through rates than an unoptimized URL.
Toolnova URL Slug Generator standardizes text into clean web slugs. It normalizes accented international characters (e.g. converting "é" to "e"), strips special punctuation, handles multiple spaces gracefully, and converts output to lowercase.
Optionally enable the stopword filter to strip filler words like "a", "the", "in", and "of" to craft punchy, focused URLs that maximize search prominence.
Key features & capabilities
Frequently asked questions about URL Slug Generator
Common questions about usage, privacy, limits, and browser compatibility.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a URL slug?
Hyphens are the safer default because major search engines treat them as word separators, while underscores can read as joining words together. The generator offers both so you can match an existing site's convention. If you have no legacy requirement, choose the hyphen.
How does the slug generator handle accents and other languages?
Accented Latin letters are normalized, so é becomes e, ü becomes u, and ß becomes ss. Punctuation and symbols are stripped, and repeated spaces collapse into a single separator. Text in scripts such as Hindi, Arabic, or Chinese is preserved rather than transliterated, so check that your CMS accepts non-ASCII slugs.
Should I remove stopwords from my slug?
Removing filler words like a, the, in, and of makes a slug shorter and keeps the focus on the keywords. That helps when a title is long, but cutting too much can make the URL hard to read or change its meaning. Compare both versions and keep the one a person could understand at a glance.
What if every word in my title is a stopword?
The generator is built to avoid empty output, so it keeps the original words when the filter would remove all of them. You still get a usable slug with separators, though the stopword toggle appears to have no effect on that title. Rephrase the title with at least one descriptive word for a stronger URL.
Does it create the full URL with my domain?
The tool outputs only the slug portion, then shows a sample preview using yourdomain.com so you can see how it reads in context. You paste the slug into your CMS, route, or Markdown frontmatter, where your own domain is applied. A copy button and a .txt download are provided.
Is the title I type kept private?
The slug is generated in your browser with no network request, so unpublished headlines and product names stay on your device. Nothing is stored on a server or tied to an account. Refreshing or closing the page discards the input.