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Free Online SEO Slug Generator

Paste a title or a paragraph: the tool turns your text into a clean, readable, SEO-friendly URL slug. Choose the separator, lowercase, accents, stop words and max length — the slug updates live. No account, no upload: everything happens in your browser.

Updated on October 13, 2026

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Paste your title, get your slug

Every option works live: the slug recalculates as you type, ready to paste into your CMS, blog or online store.

SEO Slug Generator

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The slug generator is free and unlimited: as many titles as you want, no account. Generation happens in your browser — no server involved.

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Features

A complete slug generator for SEO

Live slug as you type

Paste your title: the slug recalculates instantly, character by character. No « generate » button to click, no waiting — you immediately see the exact result that will be used in your URL.

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Complete SEO options

Lowercase, accent removal, stop word removal, number keep, hyphen or underscore separator and maximum length: every setting follows SEO conventions and applies immediately to the result.

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Works with every alphabet

French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German — but also Polish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Japanese or Chinese: the tool normalizes Unicode characters and produces clean slugs, even for languages without natural spaces.

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Private: your text stays on your device

Calculation runs entirely in your browser: nothing is sent, nothing stored on a server. Your options and last text stay local on your device so you can pick up where you left off — ideal for iterating on your titles.

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How it works

Create a slug in three steps

Paste your title

An article title, a meta description, a product name: paste the source text into the field. The slug generates automatically as you type, with nothing to confirm.

Adjust the SEO options

Choose the separator, enable accent or stop word removal, set the maximum length: every change is reflected instantly in the displayed result and the character counters.

Copy into your CMS

Click « Copy » then paste the slug into WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost or your source code. The URL is immediately clean, readable and ready to be indexed.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about URL slugs

What is a URL slug?
The slug is the part of a web address that follows the domain name and path, written in lowercase with hyphens: in volade.com/en/slug-generator.html, « slug-generator » is the slug. It should reflect the page content briefly and readably, because both visitors and search engines read it.
Why is a slug important for SEO?
The slug appears in the URL, search results and link sharing. A clear slug containing the main keyword helps Google understand the topic, increases click-through rates in results and stays readable when a link is shared. Conversely, a URL like page?id=1234 gives no information.
What is the ideal slug length?
Between 3 and 6 words, i.e. about 50 to 60 characters at most. Google truncates URLs beyond about 70 characters in its results, and a shorter slug is easier to share and remember. Set the generator's max length to 60 for a safe bet: the tool cuts cleanly at the last full word.
Should you remove accents from a slug?
It's the safest standard: « generateur-de-slug » instead of « générateur-de-slug ». Accents work in UTF-8, but they sometimes break in older systems, poorly configured CMSs or on copy-paste. The generator's « Remove accents » option transliterates cleanly: é → e, ç → c, ü → u.
Which separator to choose: hyphen or underscore?
The hyphen - is recommended by Google and used by the vast majority of sites: it is read as a space. The underscore _ is less well interpreted and can stick to neighbouring words. For technical subdomains or some internal systems, the underscore remains useful — the generator offers both in one click.
What are stop words in a slug?
They are words with no semantic value: articles (a, an, the), prepositions (of, for, with) and common connectors. « How to create a blog in 2026 » becomes « how-to-create-a-blog-2026 » — shorter and still understandable. The option automatically removes these words for the main European languages.
Can you change a slug after publishing?
Yes, but set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one to preserve SEO and existing links. Changing the slug of a well-ranked page can temporarily drop traffic: only do it if the clarity gain is worth it, and avoid changing it several times.
Is the tool private and free?
Yes: slug generation runs entirely in your browser, nothing is sent to a server and nothing is stored outside your device (except your options and last text in localStorage, for your convenience). The tool is fully free, unlimited and accessible without an account, on desktop and mobile.
Complete guide

Everything about URL slugs

The slug is the visible vocabulary of your URL architecture: those few lowercase words, separated by hyphens, summarize the page for search engines as well as humans. The slug generator by Volade turns any title into a clean slug, with the options SEO expects — all without sending anything anywhere.

The golden rules of a good slug

Lowercase only, words separated by hyphens, no special characters, between 3 and 6 words, and the main keyword as far left as possible. Avoid long dates, IDs and needless synonyms: how-to-create-a-blog ages better than how-to-create-a-blog-2026-revision-3. The generator applies these rules by default and lets you disable each bias for your case.

Accents and special characters: what to do?

In UTF-8, accents work. In practice, they still run into old CMSs, CSV exports, keyboard shortcuts and encoding errors. The simple rule: remove accents from the slug (e instead of é), keep them in the content. The generator's option transliterates cleanly, including composed characters like ø, ß or ñ.

Hyphen or underscore?

Google reads the hyphen as a space: it is the choice of the vast majority of modern sites, from WordPress to Shopify. The underscore is tolerated but less well segmented. For internal URLs, technical exports or team conventions, the generator switches in one click — the result stays valid either way.

Stop words: shorter is better, almost always

Removing le, la, by, for, the lightens the URL without losing the meaning: « buying-guide-best-laptops » stays perfectly readable. However, watch out for words that change the meaning (« gluten-free », « non-nuclear »): in those cases, uncheck the option and keep the preposition. The stop word lists cover French, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Polish.

Slugs in non-Latin languages

Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean: Unicode slugs are accepted by Google, but they are shared less easily and can cause problems outside the browser. A common practice: transliterated Latin or English slug for the URL, native language for the title. The tool handles non-Latin alphabets without breaking them — Unicode normalization and truncation stay correct even without spaces.

Length, truncation and depth

Beyond 60 characters, URLs appear truncated in search results; beyond 70, the risk of a « hidden » URL becomes real. The generator cuts at the last full word under the chosen limit — never in the middle of a word. Prefer a flat URL as well: /my-article rather than /2026/10/category/sub/article.

What next? Redirects and tracking

You published, then changed your mind: set up a 301 redirect and watch Search Console for a few weeks. A stable slug is an SEO asset: fix it once and use the meta tag generator from Volade to complete the title tag and description. To fill a demo article, the Lorem Ipsum generator does the rest, and the character counter checks your titles before publishing.

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