URL Slug Generator — Clean, SEO-Friendly URLs

What is a URL Slug Generator?

A URL Slug Generator (URL स्लग जनरेटर) converts a page title into the short, readable part of a web address that identifies that page — the slug. In promptminds.in/blog/best-places-to-visit-in-india, the slug is best-places-to-visit-in-india. Good slugs help people understand what a link is about before they click, look tidy when shared on WhatsApp or social media, and give search engines a clear signal about the page's topic.

Creating slugs by hand means lower-casing, removing punctuation and symbols, replacing spaces with hyphens and trimming length — and for Indian websites, converting Hindi titles into English letters. This free tool does all of that instantly, for one title or hundreds at once. Its Hindi transliteration follows Hindi pronunciation rules such as dropping the silent final “a”, so भारत becomes bharat rather than “bhaarata”.

Key Features

• Clean slugs — lower-case words joined by hyphens, with no spaces or symbols.
• Hindi to English transliteration for Devanagari titles.
• Accent removal — café becomes cafe, Müller becomes muller.
• Smart cleaning — “&” becomes “and”, apostrophes vanish (what's → whats).
• Optional stop-word and number removal for shorter slugs.
• Maximum length cut at a whole word, never mid-word.
• Bulk mode — one slug per line with copy buttons.
• Full URL preview using your own website address.

How to Create a Slug — Step by Step

1. Type or paste a title. For several pages, put each title on its own line.
2. Choose the separator — hyphen is recommended.
3. Set a max length (default 60 characters) or leave it empty for no limit.
4. Enter your site address to preview the full URL.
5. Choose options — Hindi transliteration, small-word removal, “&” to “and”, number removal, keeping capitals.
6. Copy a single slug with its button, or all slugs at once.

What Makes a Good Slug?

• Descriptive — it tells people and search engines what the page is about.
• Short — around 3–6 meaningful words is ideal.
• Lower-case — avoids duplicate URLs on case-sensitive servers.
• Hyphen-separated — Google recommends hyphens over underscores.
• ASCII only — plain letters and digits avoid ugly percent-encoding.
• Stable — it should not need to change when the content is updated, so avoid dates unless essential.
• Keyword-relevant — include the main topic naturally, but never stuff keywords.

Examples

Hindi to English Transliteration

Devanagari URLs are possible, but when shared they turn into long percent-encoded strings — a single word like भारत becomes %E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4. That is why most Indian news sites, blogs and shops use English letters in slugs. This tool transliterates Devanagari phonetically:

• Consonants map to common English spellings: क k, ख kh, च ch, छ chh, ट/त t, ड/द d, श/ष sh, फ़ f, ज़ z.
• Vowel signs become vowels: ा a, ि/ी i, ु/ू u, े e, ै ai, ो o, ौ au.
• Anusvara (ं) and chandrabindu (ँ) become n: हिंदी → hindi, मंदिर → mandir.
• The silent final “a” is dropped — राम → ram, भारत → bharat — but kept after clusters like ष्ट्र, ष्ण or त्र, where it is pronounced: महाराष्ट्र → maharashtra, कृष्ण → krishna, मित्र → mitra.
• Devanagari digits become ordinary digits: २०२६ → 2026.

The rules are deliberately simple and predictable. Hindi has no single official romanisation for URLs, and some words are commonly spelled differently (for example “ghumne” vs “ghumane”), so review slugs for important pages and edit them if you prefer another spelling.

How the Generator Cleans a Title

1. Transliterate Hindi words into English letters (if the option is on).
2. Replace “&” with “and” (if the option is on).
3. Remove accents using Unicode decomposition, so é becomes e and ñ becomes n; special letters like ß, æ and ø get readable equivalents.
4. Drop apostrophes, so “what's” becomes “whats” instead of “what-s”.
5. Lower-case everything (unless you keep capitals) and optionally remove numbers.
6. Split into words at every character that is not a letter or digit, and remove empty pieces.
7. Remove small words if you chose that option and the slug still has meaning.
8. Join with the separator and trim to the maximum length at a word boundary, never leaving a trailing hyphen.

Because every step is deterministic, the same title always produces the same slug — useful when you regenerate slugs for a list of products or articles.

Using Slugs in WordPress, Shopify and Other Platforms

Most platforms create a slug automatically from the title, but the automatic version is often too long or, for Hindi titles, full of percent-encoded characters. In WordPress, open the post and edit the “URL slug” or “Permalink” field in the sidebar before publishing. In Shopify and other shop builders, edit the URL handle in the search-engine listing section. Paste the slug from this tool, check the preview and publish. For bulk imports (CSV files), generate all slugs here in bulk mode and paste them into the slug or handle column.

Slugs and SEO

Search engines use many signals to understand a page; the URL is a small one, but a clear slug still helps. Google's documentation recommends simple, descriptive URLs with words separated by hyphens. Readable slugs can also improve click-through, because people can see what a link is about in search results and when it is shared. What matters most is that the slug is relevant, readable and stable — not that it contains every keyword.

Changing an Existing Slug

Changing the slug of a published page creates a new URL. Visitors and search engines following old links will get a “page not found” error unless you set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. Most content management systems, including WordPress, can do this automatically or with a plugin. Only change slugs when there is a real benefit, such as removing an outdated year or fixing a misleading word.

Who Uses a Slug Generator?

• Bloggers and news writers publishing articles in English and Hindi.
• Online shops naming product and category pages.
• Developers creating routes and file names.
• SEO teams preparing URL plans for new websites.
• YouTubers and creators building link-in-bio pages.
• Students and teachers organising project pages.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Very long slugs copied from full titles — trim to the essential words.
• Underscores or spaces — use hyphens.
• Keyword stuffing such as best-cheap-best-price-cheap-phones.
• Dates that will go stale in evergreen articles.
• Changing live slugs without redirects.
• Two pages with the same slug in one folder — each must be unique.

Troubleshooting

• Slug is empty — the title had no letters or digits (for example only emoji); add a few words.
• Hindi word spelled differently from what you expect — edit the slug by hand; spellings vary.
• Slug cut too short — increase or clear the max length.
• A small word disappeared — the “Remove small words” option is on; untick it if the slug reads better with it.
• Capital letters kept — untick “Keep capital letters” for lower-case slugs.

Quick Glossary

• Slug: the readable identifier of a page in its URL.
• Permalink: the permanent full URL of a post or page.
• Transliteration: writing words from one script in the letters of another.
• Percent-encoding: the %XX codes used for non-ASCII characters in URLs.
• 301 redirect: a permanent redirect from an old URL to a new one.
• Stop words: very common words like “the”, “of” and “in”.
• Handle: the name some shop platforms use for a product or collection slug.

Why Use This Slug Generator?

It creates clean, consistent slugs instantly, handles accents and symbols correctly, offers Hindi transliteration built for Indian websites and works in bulk — all free, with your titles staying on your device.

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