About the Text to Slug Converter
A slug is the readable part of a URL after the domain. Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphen-separated and made of real words — Google has said for years that a simple descriptive URL helps both crawlers and the people deciding whether to click. This converter processes an entire content plan at once instead of one title at a time.
How to use the Text to Slug Converter
- Paste your titles, one per line.
- Choose a separator — hyphen is the standard for URLs.
- Optionally drop stop words and set a maximum length.
- Copy the whole column of slugs into your CMS or spreadsheet.
Why use this tool?
Accent folding
Résumé becomes resume, Müller becomes muller — no percent-encoded characters in your URLs.
Clean truncation
A length limit cuts at a word boundary rather than mid-word, so slugs stay readable.
Stop word removal
Optionally strip a, the, of, and to tighten long editorial headlines.
Frequently asked questions
Hyphens or underscores in URLs?
Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so my_blog_post can read as one long token.
How long should a slug be?
Aim for three to five meaningful words, roughly 50-60 characters. Long slugs get truncated in search results and are awkward to share.
Should I include the date or category?
Usually not. Dates make evergreen content look stale, and category prefixes break if you reorganise the site later.