How are accents and non-Latin characters handled?

Accented Latin characters are transliterated to their nearest ASCII equivalent, so é becomes e and ß becomes ss. Scripts with no reasonable ASCII mapping, along with emoji, are removed. This keeps the slug readable in a shared link instead of turning into percent-encoded escape sequences.

Should I remove stop words?

It is optional and mostly a matter of taste. Dropping words like the, a and of shortens a long headline's slug and puts the meaningful terms first. The gain is readability rather than ranking, so if removing them makes the slug read oddly, leave them in.

How long should a slug be?

Short enough to read at a glance, which in practice means roughly three to six meaningful words. There is no hard technical limit, but very long slugs get truncated in search results and are awkward to share, and they rarely add anything the first few words did not already convey.

Can I change a slug after publishing?

You can, but the old URL will break unless you redirect it. Anything already linking to or ranking for the old address needs a permanent redirect to the new one, otherwise you lose that traffic. It is much less work to settle on a slug before publishing.

Generators

URL Slug Generator

Turn titles into clean, URL-safe slugs.

Separator

Max lengthNo limit

Remove stop words

Drops the, a, of and similar. Readability only, not a ranking factor.

Titles

Titles to convert, one per line

Slugs

About this tool

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, the trailing segment of something like example.com/blog/my-first-post. Turning a title into one means lowercasing it, replacing spaces with hyphens, and removing anything that does not belong in a URL.

Getting this right matters for a few reasons that compound. A clean slug is readable in search results and in a shared link, which affects whether people click. It survives being pasted into chat, email and documents without being mangled by percent-encoding. And it is stable: a slug derived from a title is something you can keep even if you later reword the heading.

The part that is easy to get wrong is non-ASCII text. Accented characters, non-Latin scripts and emoji are all technically permitted in a modern URL, but they get percent-encoded the moment the link travels anywhere, turning a tidy address into an unreadable run of escape sequences. This tool transliterates accented Latin characters to their closest ASCII equivalent, so a title with é or ü produces a slug with e and u, and strips characters it cannot sensibly transliterate rather than leaving them to be escaped.

It also handles the small details that make a slug look deliberate: collapsing runs of separators into one hyphen, trimming hyphens from the ends, removing stray punctuation and quotes, and optionally dropping common English stop words to keep a long headline's slug short. Every line is converted independently, so you can paste a list of titles and get a list of slugs back.

How to use it

Paste a title, or one title per line, into the input panel.
Adjust the separator, maximum length, or stop-word removal if you want to.
Copy the generated slugs.

Frequently asked questions

How are accents and non-Latin characters handled?: Accented Latin characters are transliterated to their nearest ASCII equivalent, so é becomes e and ß becomes ss. Scripts with no reasonable ASCII mapping, along with emoji, are removed. This keeps the slug readable in a shared link instead of turning into percent-encoded escape sequences.
Should I remove stop words?: It is optional and mostly a matter of taste. Dropping words like the, a and of shortens a long headline's slug and puts the meaningful terms first. The gain is readability rather than ranking, so if removing them makes the slug read oddly, leave them in.
How long should a slug be?: Short enough to read at a glance, which in practice means roughly three to six meaningful words. There is no hard technical limit, but very long slugs get truncated in search results and are awkward to share, and they rarely add anything the first few words did not already convey.
Can I change a slug after publishing?: You can, but the old URL will break unless you redirect it. Anything already linking to or ranking for the old address needs a permanent redirect to the new one, otherwise you lose that traffic. It is much less work to settle on a slug before publishing.