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Convert any text to a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug with customizable options.
Every time I create a blog post or add a new page, I need a URL slug. For years I did this manually - lowercase the title, replace spaces with hyphens, remove special characters. It's tedious and error-prone, especially with non-English characters.
This tool handles all the edge cases I've encountered: Czech diacritics like ř, š, ž get transliterated properly. Stop words can be removed to keep URLs short. And I can preview exactly how the URL will look before using it.
I often use this alongside the Case Converter when working with different naming conventions, and the Word Counterto check title length before converting.
After optimizing hundreds of URLs for SEO, here's what I've learned actually matters:
If you write in languages with accented characters, transliteration is essential. German ü becomes u, French é becomes e, Czech ř becomes r. This ensures your URLs work everywhere and don't break when copied into systems that only support ASCII.
The transliteration in this tool covers most European languages. For languages like Chinese or Arabic that use completely different scripts, you'd typically use a different approach like pinyin romanization.
Removing stop words is a trade-off. "How to Write Better Code" becomes "write-better-code" - shorter and arguably better. But sometimes stop words matter for meaning: "The Office" shouldn't become "office".
I usually enable stop word removal for blog posts and articles, but disable it for product names, brand names, and titles where every word is intentional.
A URL slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page. In "example.com/blog/my-awesome-post", the slug is "my-awesome-post". Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, and describe the page content.
Search engines use URLs to understand page content. A URL like "/learn-javascript" tells Google what the page is about, while "/page?id=12345" says nothing. Users also prefer clicking on descriptive URLs in search results.
Always use hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators, so "my-blog-post" is read as three separate words. Underscores join words, so "my_blog_post" might be interpreted as one word. This affects search ranking.
Keep slugs under 60 characters - shorter is better. Focus on 3-5 key words that describe the page. Longer slugs get truncated in search results and are harder to share or remember.