URL Slug Generator

What the slug is for

It is the readable part of the address, and one of the few pieces of a URL a person actually reads before clicking. A slug that says what the page is about earns clicks in search results and in a pasted link; a string of numbers earns none.

Rules worth following

  • Lowercase, always — servers treat /About and /about as different pages.
  • Hyphens, not underscores. Search engines split on a hyphen and join on an underscore.
  • Three to five meaningful words. The rest is noise.
  • Leave dates out unless they are genuinely part of what the page is.
  • Do not change it after publishing without a 301 redirect.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What makes a good slug?

Short, readable and permanent. Three to five meaningful words beats a full sentence, and hyphens beat underscores because search engines treat a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner.

Should I remove words like "the" and "of"?

Usually, since they add length without meaning. Keep them when removing them changes the sense, which happens more often than people expect — "state of the art" is not "state art".

What happens to a Hindi title?

It is transliterated to Latin letters. A Devanagari URL is legal but gets percent-encoded the moment it is shared, so a clean Hindi address turns into a wall of %E0%A4 codes in a WhatsApp message.

Why must slugs be lowercase?

Because web servers on Linux treat /About and /about as two different pages. That quietly splits your ranking between them and creates duplicate content out of nothing.

Can I change a slug after publishing?

You can, but every existing link breaks unless you add a 301 redirect from the old address. Getting it right first is far cheaper than fixing it later.

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