Text to slug generator
Convert any title into a clean SEO-friendly URL slug instantly. Bulk mode for multiple titles.
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Where the word "slug" comes from
The term is newspaper jargon. In the hot-metal printing era, a "slug" was a line of type cast in lead by a Linotype machine, and editors used the word for the short working name that identified a story as it moved through production — "MAYOR-SCANDAL" rather than the full headline. Early web content systems borrowed the term for the short identifier in a page's URL, WordPress made it mainstream, and today "slug" is standard vocabulary in every CMS. The job is the same as in the newsroom: a compact, unambiguous label for one piece of content.
What makes a good URL slug
A well-formed URL slug uses only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. It contains no spaces, no special characters, no accented letters, and no punctuation. It is as short as possible while still being descriptive. It includes the primary keyword for the page. And it reads naturally when someone sees it in a browser address bar or shared link — a URL a human can read and trust before clicking earns more clicks than a string of IDs and parameters.
Bulk slug generation
The bulk mode is built for content teams, SEO managers, and developers who need to generate multiple slugs at once. Paste a list of article titles, product names, or category names — one per line — and get a matching list of slugs instantly. Copy the entire output and paste it directly into your CMS, spreadsheet, or database.
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
The slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies one specific page — in example.com/blog/how-to-write-better, the slug is "how-to-write-better". By convention slugs use only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, because spaces and special characters must otherwise be percent-encoded into unreadable sequences like %20. A descriptive slug tells both visitors and search engines what the page is about before it even loads, which is why every serious CMS asks you to set one.
How do I create an SEO-friendly URL slug?
Keep it lowercase, join words with hyphens, include your primary keyword, and cut everything that does not earn its place — three to five words is the sweet spot for most pages. Avoid dates and numbers that will go stale ("best-laptops-2023" ages badly), and never rely on punctuation or accented characters, which get encoded into noise. The generator applies all of the formatting rules automatically: paste your draft title, and the technical part of SEO slugging is done.
Should I remove stop words from my URL slug?
Generally yes. Dropping "a", "the", "and", "of" and similar words turns "how-to-write-better-blog-posts" into the tighter "write-better-blog-posts" — shorter URLs are easier to share, easier to read in search results, and lose nothing in ranking. The exception is when a stop word carries meaning in your keyword phrase: "on-page-seo" ruined to "page-seo" says something different. The tool's stop-word option lets you strip them automatically and keep them when the phrase demands it.
Can I generate slugs for multiple titles at once?
Yes. Enable Bulk mode and paste one title per line — each line converts to its own slug independently, and the output lists them one per line in the same order, ready to copy as a block. This is built for content migrations and batch work: a spreadsheet column of fifty article titles becomes fifty CMS-ready slugs in one paste, instead of fifty round trips through a single-line converter.
Can I use underscores instead of hyphens in slugs?
You can — select the underscore separator — but hyphens are the right default for anything public-facing. Google has long recommended hyphens because its systems treat them as word separators: "slug-generator" is read as two words, while "slug_generator" has historically been treated as a single token. Underscores remain the convention in some internal systems, database exports and legacy frameworks, which is why the option exists at all.