Slug Generator

Yes. The KeyGrow Slug Generator is 100% free with no signup, no login, no email gate, and no usage limits. Generate as many slugs as you want, in single or batch mode, and download unlimited CSV exports. There is no paid tier and no upsell inside the tool. We offer it as a free utility from KeyGrow, a marketing agency that helps brands rank on Google and AI search engines.

No. The Slug Generator runs entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. Your titles, slugs, batch lists, and CSV exports never touch our servers, never get logged, and never get sent over the network. You can verify this by opening your browser DevTools network tab while generating slugs. The tool also works offline after the first page load because all processing is local.

Use hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners. That means my-blog-post reads as three words (my, blog, post) to the crawler, while my_blog_post reads as one long word (myblogpost). Hyphens are the SEO-correct choice for content URLs. Use underscores only when you specifically want the slug to be read as one token, which is most common in filenames and code identifiers, not URLs.

Keep it short. The SEO sweet spot is under 60 characters and 3 to 5 words. Anything longer gets truncated in mobile search results, in social previews like Twitter and LinkedIn cards, and in chat platforms. The Slug Generator shows a live character count with a color-coded badge: green under 60, yellow up to 75, red above 75. You can also set a hard max length and the tool will trim the slug at the nearest word boundary so it never cuts a word in half.

Transliteration converts non-ASCII characters into their closest ASCII equivalents. So é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ü becomes u, ç becomes c, ß becomes ss, and Cyrillic, Greek, Polish, Czech, and Turkish letters get converted into their standard romanized forms. You need it whenever your title contains accented or non-Latin characters and you want a clean URL. Without transliteration, /café gets encoded in URLs as /caf%C3%A9, which is ugly when shared. The Slug Generator transliterates by default, with a toggle if you want to keep the original characters.

Yes. Switch to Batch mode at the top of the tool. Paste one title per line, and the tool generates a slug for each title in real time. You can copy all slugs to the clipboard with one click, copy individual rows, or download every original-and-slug pair as a CSV file. Batch mode is the fastest way to slugify a whole content calendar, a product catalog, or a sitemap migration. There is no row limit.

Stop words are the high-frequency, low-information English words that search engines often ignore when matching queries: a, an, and, the, is, of, to, in, on, for, by, with, and around 20 more. When you enable the Remove stop words toggle, the Slug Generator strips them from your slug. So "The 10 Best Ways to Improve Your SEO in 2026" becomes 10-best-ways-improve-seo-2026 instead of the-10-best-ways-to-improve-your-seo-in-2026. The shorter slug keeps the meaningful keywords and drops the filler. If stop word removal would leave you with nothing, the tool falls back to keeping the original words so you never get an empty slug.

When the Replace symbols option is on (it is by default), the Slug Generator swaps common symbols for their word equivalents before generating the slug. The ampersand becomes and, the dollar sign becomes dollar, the percent sign becomes percent, the plus sign becomes plus, the at sign becomes at, the hash becomes number, and currency symbols (€ £ ¥) become their currency names. So "Marketing & SEO: 50% off + free $100 audit" becomes marketing-and-seo-50-percent-off-plus-free-100-dollars-audit. Turn the toggle off if you would rather have the symbols stripped entirely without word replacement.

Yes. The Remove duplicate words option (on by default) catches cases where the same word appears twice and removes the duplicates. So a title like "SEO Services and SEO Agency for Local SEO" becomes seo-services-and-agency-for-local instead of seo-services-and-seo-agency-for-local-seo. This is especially useful when slugifying long titles that repeat your primary keyword for emphasis. The tool checks case-insensitively, so SEO and seo count as the same word.

Yes. The Max length field accepts any number from 0 to 250. Set it to 0 to keep slugs unlimited, or pick a hard cap like 60 (SEO ideal), 75, or 100. When the slug would exceed the cap, the tool trims it back to the last whole word before the limit so you never end up with a half-word slug. Quick-pick buttons let you jump to common limits in one click. The most useful default is 60 because that is roughly the point at which slugs start getting truncated in Google search results on mobile.

Custom replacements let you swap specific terms before the slug is generated. For example, you might want every mention of "JavaScript" to become "js", or "and" to become a plus sign, or your brand name to always render in a specific form. Expand the Custom replacements section in the options panel, add a from and to pair, and the replacement runs case-insensitively across the input before any other processing. You can add as many rows as you want and remove them with the × button.

Yes. Enable the Preserve file extension toggle and the tool keeps the last extension (.jpg, .png, .pdf, .docx, .mp4 — anything up to 8 alphanumeric characters after a final dot) intact while slugifying the rest of the filename. So "My Vacation Photos 2026.JPG" becomes my-vacation-photos-2026.jpg with the extension lowercased and preserved. This is useful for asset uploads, S3 bucket file naming, and clean download URLs.

Yes. The transliteration map covers seven alphabets: Latin extended (Western European, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Vietnamese, Turkish), Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic), Greek, and many more. Any character not explicitly mapped gets NFD-normalized and stripped of its combining marks, which handles obscure diacritics the explicit map misses. The end result is a clean ASCII slug. If your site uses non-ASCII URLs intentionally (some Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew sites do), turn transliteration off and the tool preserves the original characters.

Yes. Below the generated slug, a dropdown lets you wrap the slug in any of six built-in templates: plain slug, /blog/{slug}, /products/{slug}, full URL with https://yoursite.com/{slug}, {slug}.html, or {slug}.md. Pick a template and click Copy as to send the wrapped value to your clipboard. The plain Copy slug button gives you just the slug itself with no prefix or suffix.

Most free slug generators do the bare minimum: lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip punctuation. The KeyGrow Slug Generator adds full transliteration for seven alphabets, four case modes, five separator options, stop word removal, duplicate-word deduplication, custom replacement rules, max length with word-boundary trimming, file extension preservation, batch mode with CSV export, live SEO length scoring, URL template wrapping, and a history of your last 10 slugs. Everything still runs entirely in your browser, with zero data sent to a server. We built it because we needed it for our own work.

Numbers in slugs are fine when they describe the content (10-best-tools, 50-percent-off, 2026-trends). They are useful and they often match the way people search. Dates are riskier. Including a year like /2026/05/my-post creates a slug that ages out. If you keep updating the content, the URL still says 2026 even when the post is current for 2027. Most modern SEO advice is to skip the date in the URL and put it in the metadata instead. The Slug Generator has a Remove numbers option if you want to enforce this rule across a batch.

Yes, but only if you also set up a 301 redirect from the old slug to the new one. Without the redirect, every backlink, bookmark, and social share that points to the old URL will hit a 404, and the new URL starts from zero in search. A 301 redirect tells Google that the page has permanently moved and passes most of the link equity to the new URL. After redirecting, submit the new URL in Google Search Console with Request indexing so the new slug shows up in search faster. If the page has no traffic and no backlinks, you can change the slug freely. Otherwise, redirect first.

Yes. The tool is fully responsive and works on phones and tablets. The input, output, options sidebar, and batch results table all reflow for narrow screens. Copy buttons use the native browser clipboard API so they work on mobile Safari, Chrome, and Firefox without plugins. For long batch lists, a desktop browser is more comfortable to scroll, but mobile works for quick single-slug generation on the go.