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URL slug generator

Paste a title or headline and the generator turns it into a URL slug like size-and-weight: only lowercase letters, digits and hyphens. One line per title – you can copy all slugs at once.

One line per title.

Your text stays in your browser – it is not sent, not stored and not added to the address bar.

Sets the transliteration (German: ä → ae) and the stop words.
characters
0 = no limit. Cuts at the last word boundary.
Articles (a, an, the), “and”, “or” and common prepositions such as “for”, “with”, “of”.
Your inputs are saved in this browser only.

Result

URL slugs
size-and-weight-apples-10-cheaper the-best-tips-for-your-garden
Count
2
Notes

    How it is calculated

    What is a URL slug?

    The slug is the readable part of a web address that names a single page – in example.com/guides/garden-tips it is “garden-tips”. Content management systems such as WordPress, Shopify or TYPO3 usually create it from the title; shortened by hand it is often better.

    What Google recommends for URLs

    How the generator works

    1. Everything is converted to lowercase.
    2. Transliteration: for German, ä, ö, ü become ae, oe, ue and ß becomes ss. In the other languages accents are dropped: é → e, ñ → n, ç → c, ã → a. The “&” sign becomes a word (“and”); apostrophes are removed (don’t → dont).
    3. All other characters (punctuation, emoji, percent signs …) become word separators; several separators in a row are merged into one.
    4. Optionally, stop words are removed and the slug is shortened to a maximum length – always at a word boundary.
    TitleSlug
    Size & Weight: Apples 10% Cheaper!size-and-weight-apples-10-cheaper
    The Best Tips for Your Garden (without stop words)best-tips-your-garden
    Don’t Panic: A Beginner’s Guide to SEOdont-panic-a-beginners-guide-to-seo

    Accents in the slug: é or e?

    Google also processes addresses with accented letters (/café); in the link they are sent as percent codes (/caf%C3%A9) and often look like that when copied. The plain form cafe is therefore the more robust choice for links in emails, ads and social networks.

    Your titles stay in your browser and are never sent.

    Frequently asked questions

    How long should a URL slug be?

    Google sets no fixed limit but recommends simple, descriptive addresses. A few meaningful words are usually enough. With “Maximum length” you can shorten slugs automatically at a word boundary.

    Hyphen or underscore?

    Hyphen. Google explicitly recommends hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) so that the individual words are easier to identify.

    Should I remove stop words like “the”, “and”, “for”?

    It is a matter of style: shorter slugs are easier to read and share. If the meaning stays intact, stop words can go. If a title consists only of stop words, the generator leaves it unchanged.

    What happens to Cyrillic or Chinese script?

    The generator only creates slugs from Latin letters and digits. Lines without such characters are reported. Google itself also supports addresses in other scripts (UTF-8).

    Sources and legal basis

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