Free URL Slug Generator Tool

Convert your titles into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs instantly. Perfect for bloggers, content creators, and web developers looking to optimize their website URLs.

Best practices for URL slugs

  • Keep slugs under 5 words or 60 characters when possible
  • Include your target keywords near the beginning
  • Use hyphens (not underscores) to separate words
  • Remove stop words (a, an, the, and) unless necessary

URL Slug FAQs

A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a particular page in a human-readable way. It's the portion that comes after the domain name, typically describing the page content. For example, in 'example.com/blog/url-slug-generator', 'url-slug-generator' is the slug.

Good slugs help search engines understand your page content, improve click-through rates from search results, and make URLs more shareable. They should be concise, descriptive, and include relevant keywords while avoiding unnecessary characters or numbers.

Bad slugs are often too long, contain special characters, use underscores instead of hyphens, include stop words, or have random numbers/letters. Examples: 'post1234', 'how_to_make_money', or 'this-is-a-really-really-long-url-slug-that-goes-on-forever'.

Changing existing slugs will create broken links unless you set up proper redirects. If the current slugs are poorly optimized, it's worth updating them with 301 redirects from the old URLs to maintain SEO value and prevent 404 errors.

Need help with your website's SEO? This free slug generator is part of our suite of web development tools designed to help you create better, more search-engine-friendly websites.

Remember: While good slugs help with SEO, they're just one piece of the optimization puzzle.