SEO URL Slug Generator & Cleaner
Convert titles and article headlines into clean, lowercase, URL-safe permalinks with accent removal and stop word filtering.
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About this tool
How to use it
- Type or paste your article title, blog post headline, or product name into the input field.
- Choose your slug separator (hyphen '-' is the recommended Google standard).
- Toggle optional filters like removing English stop words, normalizing foreign accents/diacritics, or setting a maximum character truncation limit.
- Click Generate Slug and copy the clean permalink to your clipboard for WordPress, Shopify, or static site generators.
Why it matters
Messy URLs packed with special characters, symbols, and redundant conjunctions confuse search engine crawlers and users. Clean, concise, keyword-rich permalinks improve click-through rates (CTR) on search engine result pages (SERPs) and prevent broken link encoding errors.
When to use it
Use this tool whenever publishing a new blog article, launching an e-commerce product page, structuring documentation routes, or migrating legacy URLs into clean permalinks.
Good to know
Google's SEO guidelines explicitly recommend hyphens (-) over underscores (_) as word delimiters. Hyphens are recognized by search engine tokenizers as spaces, while underscores treat connected words as a single combined compound token.
Common questions
Why should I use hyphens instead of underscores in URLs?
Google's webmaster guidelines state that search crawlers interpret hyphens as word separators (e.g. 'best-headphones' is read as two distinct keywords 'best' and 'headphones'), whereas underscores concatenate words into a single search string ('best_headphones').
Should I remove stop words from URL slugs?
Removing conjunctions and prepositions ('and', 'the', 'for', 'in') keeps URLs shorter and more memorable without sacrificing search rankings. However, keep stop words if removing them alters the grammatical meaning of the search query.
What is the ideal URL slug length for SEO?
Aim for 3 to 5 words and between 30 and 60 characters. Shorter URLs are easier to read, share on social networks, and remain fully visible on mobile search result snippets without truncation.
How does accent removal work?
The tool uses Unicode NFD normalization to separate diacritical marks from letters (converting 'é' to 'e', 'ü' to 'u', and 'ñ' to 'n'), preventing percent-encoded URLs like '%C3%A9' that look broken to users.