How to create a URL slug
- Paste your title into the "Your text" box, or several titles, one per line. "Try an example" shows two sample headlines.
- Pick a separator: hyphen (recommended for web pages) or underscore.
- Adjust the options if needed: keep lowercase on, remove short words, keep non-English letters, or set a maximum length.
- Copy the slugs or download them as a .txt file.
Features
- Clean slugs from any title, with punctuation and symbols removed.
- Accents stripped so "Crème Brûlée" becomes "creme-brulee".
- Symbols spelt out: & becomes "and", @ becomes "at".
- Optional stop-word removal for a, an, the, and, or, but, of, to, in, on, at, for, with, by, is, are, was, how, what and why.
- Maximum length that never cuts a word in half.
- Non-English letters kept on request, with a notice if a line would otherwise end up empty.
- Bulk conversion, one slug per line.
What is a URL slug?
The slug is the part of a web address that names a specific page. In example.com/blog/compress-pdf-to-100kb, the slug is "compress-pdf-to-100kb". It tells readers, and search engines, what the page is about before they click. A good slug is lowercase, uses hyphens between words, contains no spaces or odd symbols and stays readable when pasted into a message.
Here is what the tool does with a typical headline: "How to Compress a PDF to 100 KB – Free & Fast!" becomes "how-to-compress-a-pdf-to-100-kb-free-and-fast". With short words removed it becomes "compress-pdf-100-kb-free-fast". A maximum length of 20 gives "compress-pdf-100-kb".
Slug tips for SEO
- Include the main topic people search for, but don't repeat it.
- Keep it short. Long slugs get cut off in search results and are awkward to share.
- Avoid dates and numbers that will change, such as years in evergreen guides, so the address stays accurate when you update the page.
- Stick to lowercase. Some servers treat capitals as different addresses, which can create duplicate pages.
- Don't change a published slug without setting up a redirect from the old address, or existing links and rankings will break.
Why use Fileora's slug generator
Writing slugs by hand leads to small inconsistencies: a stray capital, a double hyphen, an accent that turns into strange characters. The converter applies the same rules every time, and bulk mode is handy when you're importing many posts or products at once.
It is free, private and requires no account. Your unpublished titles stay on your device, and the tool works on a phone as well as a desktop.
To tidy your headline first, use the title case converter. If you need to see how a non-English slug looks inside a link, the URL encoder and decoder shows the encoded form, and the word counter checks your title length.