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URL Slug Generator

Turn any phrase into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. Strips accents (Turkish İ ş ğ ç ö ü included), collapses spaces, supports - _ . separators.

Paste any title — including Turkish or other accented text — and the generator instantly produces a lowercase, hyphen-separated URL slug (e.g., "Merhaba Dünya 2026!" → merhaba-dunya-2026). It strips accents, collapses punctuation, and shows dash/underscore/dot variants so you can pick the format your CMS uses. A warning appears if your slug runs over 60 characters — the sweet spot for Google search snippets.

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Paste any title — including Turkish or other accented text — and the generator instantly produces a lowercase, hyphen-separated URL slug (e.g., "Merhaba Dünya 2026!" → merhaba-dunya-2026). It strips accents, collapses punctuation, and shows dash/underscore/dot variants so you can pick the format your CMS uses. A warning appears if your slug runs over 60 characters — the sweet spot for Google search snippets.

What is URL Slug Generator?

The URL Slug Generator is a free online tool that converts any phrase — including ones with accents, punctuation, and Turkish characters — into a clean, lowercase, SEO-friendly URL slug. It's the fastest way to create blog permalinks, product URLs, and navigation paths that look good in search results and social shares. Unlike generic slugify libraries, this one correctly handles Turkish dotted/dotless I (İ ı), soft-G (ğ), and the sibilants (ş ç) that Python's stock unicodedata module mishandles.

How to use URL Slug Generator

  1. 1

    Enter your title or phrase

    Type or paste the article title, product name, or any phrase you want to turn into a URL slug. Turkish, German, French, Spanish, and most Latin-script languages are supported.

  2. 2

    Pick a separator (optional)

    The default is a dash (-), which Google prefers. To override, append |||_ for underscores or |||. for dots at the end of your input.

  3. 3

    Copy the slug you want

    The output shows the generated slug plus three separator variants and a no-separator version. Copy whichever matches your CMS routing rules.

  4. 4

    Check the length warning

    If your slug exceeds 60 characters, the tool flags it. Trim stop-words like "the", "and", "a" to get under the limit without losing keywords.

Try it when you need to…

  • Turn a blog post title into a permalink that ranks well in Google
  • Generate product URL slugs from product names for your e-commerce store
  • Create Turkish-friendly slugs that transliterate ş ğ ç ö ü correctly
  • Clean up messy imported titles before setting up redirects in your CMS
  • Normalize file download names to avoid spaces and illegal filesystem characters

Use cases

  • Blog posts — convert article titles into permanent, readable URLs
  • E-commerce — generate product URL slugs from product names automatically
  • CMS and static site generators — batch-create slugs for new content pages
  • Internationalization — produce consistent slugs from non-English input (Turkish, German, French, Spanish)
  • File naming — normalize download filenames without illegal characters

Key features

Strips accents and diacritics from Latin characters (café → cafe)
Turkish character support: İ→I, ş→s, ğ→g, ç→c, ö→o, ü→u
Collapses spaces, punctuation, and symbols into a single separator
Choose between dash (-), underscore (_), or dot (.) separators
Shows all three separator variants plus a no-separator version at once
Warns when slug exceeds 60 characters — the SEO sweet-spot limit

Tips & best practices

Remove stop-words (the, a, and, of, to) before slugging when your phrase is long — they eat up characters without adding SEO value.

Include your primary keyword in the slug, ideally at the start, so both users and search engines see it immediately.

Don't change slugs on existing pages without a 301 redirect — Google will treat the new URL as a separate page and you'll lose rankings.

Frequently asked questions

Google treats hyphens as word separators but treats underscores as letter joiners. A URL like /hello-world ranks as two words; /hello_world is treated as one compound word. Official Google guidance since 2018 has consistently favoured hyphens.

Yes. The tool specifically handles Turkish dotted-I (İ), dotless-i (ı), soft-g (ğ), ş, ç, ö, and ü — critical since Python's normal NFKD normalization gets these wrong. Most generic slugify tools convert "şeker" to "seker" but leave ı untouched; ours handles both correctly.

Keep slugs under 60 characters if possible. Shorter slugs (3-5 words) rank better, look cleaner in search results, and are easier to share. The tool warns you if yours exceeds this threshold.

No — the slug should focus on the primary keyword. A title like "The 10 Best Free SEO Tools in 2026" should slug to best-free-seo-tools-2026 (stop-words removed).

You can, but only if you add a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. Otherwise Google treats the new URL as a fresh page and existing backlinks + rankings are lost.