Slug Generator
Convert titles to SEO-friendly URL slugs with precision.
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URLs That Humans and Google Can Read
What a good slug looks like
The slug is the URL's human-readable tail — and one of the few ranking-relevant things you fully control:
| Rule | Good | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Lowercase only | /emi-calculator | /EMI-Calculator (case-sensitive servers see two pages) |
| Hyphens between words | /pdf-to-word | /pdf_to_word or /pdftoword |
| Short — 3 to 5 words | /compress-pdf-2mb | /how-you-can-easily-compress-your-pdf-files-online |
| Words, not IDs | /winter-sale-2026 | /post?id=4271 |
| No dates unless content is dated | /visa-guide | /visa-guide-2024 (ages badly) |
The transliteration question
Titles with Urdu words or special characters need deliberate slugs — auto-generated ones turn into percent-encoded soup that nobody can read or share. Transliterate meaningfully (mehndi-designs, not the encoded original), drop stopwords that add length without meaning, and keep the primary keyword — it appears bolded in search results when it matches the query.
Changing a slug later costs more than choosing well now
A published URL accumulates links and rankings; renaming it without a 301 redirect orphans all of it. If you must change one, redirect old → new permanently and verify with the HTTP status checker that it returns 301, not 302 or a chain. Slugs pair with the title and description work in the meta tag generator, and odd characters that must survive in a URL get handled by the URL encoder.