What makes a slug “SEO-friendly”
A good URL slug is short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, and free of special characters, stop words, and unnecessary numbers — search engines and users can both read “/blog/best-coffee-makers” more easily than “/blog/The-Best-Coffee-Makers-of-2024!!!”. Shorter, cleaner slugs also tend to display better in search results, which don’t always show the full URL.
Handling accents and non-Latin scripts
A title like “Café Résumé” needs its accented characters normalized to plain ASCII (“cafe-resume”) for a clean URL. For non-Latin scripts — Cyrillic, Greek, or CJK characters — the generator can transliterate to a readable Latin-alphabet approximation, since raw non-Latin characters in a URL often get percent-encoded into long, unreadable strings by browsers and platforms.
Stop words: keep or strip?
Removing common stop words (“the,” “a,” “of”) shortens slugs and can slightly improve keyword density in the URL, but some site owners prefer to keep them for readability or brand consistency. The generator supports both modes, plus a custom separator if your CMS expects underscores instead of hyphens.
Why use UtilityApps for this
Instant conversion, no signup — paste a title and copy the slug straight into your CMS or routing config.