Slug Formatter

A good slug is lowercase, uses hyphens between words, is concise (3-5 words), includes the primary keyword, avoids stop words, and is descriptive enough for users and search engines to understand.

The quality checker evaluates slug length, keyword presence, stop-word usage, and readability to ensure your URL follows SEO best practices for maximum click-through potential.

Yes, the tool generates complete meta tags including title, description, canonical URL, and OpenGraph/Twitter Card tags that you can copy directly into your HTML head section.

The tool supports Web Page, Article, Product, and Service schema types, generating structured JSON-LD markup that helps search engines display rich results for your content.

Yes, you can choose between hyphen or underscore separators, set a maximum slug length, enable stop-word removal, and toggle ASCII-only mode for international content normalization.

Everything outside a-z, 0-9, and hyphens: punctuation is dropped, whitespace collapses to single hyphens, and consecutive hyphens merge. The output is lowercase and trimmed of leading/trailing hyphens, producing slugs that never need URL-encoding - the format WordPress, GitHub anchors, and most CMS platforms generate.

Diacritics are transliterated to their base letters first (é→e, ü→u, ñ→n), so "Café Müller" becomes cafe-muller. CJK and other scripts without Latin transliteration pass through percent-encoding in a URL, so the slug keeps them verbatim - modern browsers render Unicode slugs natively, and Google documents that it handles non-ASCII URLs.

Hyphens are the safe separator: Google treats hyphen-separated words as distinct since 2010, while underscores historically join words into one token. Beyond that, a short descriptive slug (3-6 words) helps users and click-through more than keyword-stuffing - Google's SEO starter guide recommends simple, descriptive URLs.