So nutzt du: Slug Generator
- Type or paste a page title, product name or heading into Title or text.
- Choose a separator (hyphens are best for SEO), and whether to transliterate German umlauts as
ae/oe/ue. - Optionally remove stop words or set a maximum length — the slug is cut at a word boundary, never mid-word.
- Copy the slug, or switch to Bulk to convert a whole list of titles at once and export it as CSV.
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, such as best-running-shoes in example.com/blog/best-running-shoes. Good slugs are short, lowercase, use hyphens between words and contain only the characters a–z, 0–9 and -, so they never need percent-encoding. This generator turns any title into such a slug, handling the awkward cases — accents, umlauts, ligatures, ampersands, apostrophes and non-Latin scripts — correctly.
How the conversion works
- Transliteration. Accented letters are mapped to their base letters (
é → e,ñ → n,ç → c,ł → l), ligatures are expanded (æ → ae,œ → oe,ß → ss) and Cyrillic and Greek are romanized (Москва → moskva). - German umlauts. With the German option on,
ä/ö/übecomeae/oe/ue— the spelling German readers expect (Größe → groesse, notgrosse). Turn it off for other languages, e.g. Finnish or Turkish, whereö → ois preferred. - Clean-up. Apostrophes are dropped (
what's → whats),&becomes “and” (or “und”/“et”), every other run of punctuation or whitespace becomes a single separator, and separators at the start and end are trimmed. - Optional trimming. Stop words are removed and the slug is shortened to the maximum length at the last full word.
Examples
| Title | Slug |
|---|---|
| 10 Tips for Better Coffee & Tea! | 10-tips-for-better-coffee-and-tea |
| Crème Brûlée: A Classic Recipe | creme-brulee-a-classic-recipe |
| Über uns – Größe & Qualität | ueber-uns-groesse-und-qualitaet (umlaut option on, “&” → “und”) |
| What's New in Version 2.0? | whats-new-in-version-2-0 |
Slug best practices for SEO
- Use hyphens, not underscores. Google's URL guidelines recommend hyphens to separate words; underscores can cause words to be read as one.
- Keep it short and descriptive. Three to five meaningful words is usually enough. Removing stop words helps, but keep them when they change the meaning (“to-be-or-not-to-be”).
- Stay lowercase. Paths are case-sensitive on most servers, so
/Aboutand/aboutcan become duplicate URLs. - Avoid dates and version numbers in evergreen content so the URL doesn't look outdated — and don't change a published slug without a 301 redirect (see the Redirect Generator).
For other naming styles such as camelCase or snake_case, use the Case Converter.
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Passende Tools zu: Slug Generator
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- Wortzähler — Füge deinen Text ein oder gib ihn ein, um Wörter und Zeichen in Echtzeit zu zählen – dazu kommen Lese- und Sprechzeit, Schlüsselwortdichte sowie Längenprüfungen für SEO-Titel, Meta-Beschreibungen und Social-Media-Beiträge.
- UTM Builder — Add utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign and friends to any link, see which GA4 channel the visit will land in, and tag a whole list of URLs at once.
- Markdown Table Generator — Build a table in a spreadsheet-like editor — or paste cells from Excel, Google Sheets or CSV — set column alignment and get a neatly aligned Markdown table (GitHub-flavored) or clean HTML.
Häufige Fragen
Should I use hyphens or underscores in URLs?
Hyphens. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, so
blue-shoes is read as “blue shoes”, and hyphens are the convention in almost every CMS. Underscores are fine for file names and code identifiers.How do German umlauts appear in a URL slug?
The standard German transliteration is ä → ae, ö → oe, ü → ue and ß → ss, so “Größe” becomes
groesse. With the umlaut option off, the dots are simply removed (grosse).How long should a URL slug be?
There is no hard limit, but short slugs are easier to read, share and remember. Aim for 3–5 meaningful words, roughly under 60 characters; set “Max length” to enforce a limit without cutting words in half.
Can a slug contain non-English characters?
Yes — URLs can contain Unicode, but browsers and many tools display it percent-encoded (e.g.
%E6%97%A5). Transliterated ASCII slugs are the safest choice; enable “Keep non-Latin letters” if your audience reads a non-Latin script.Should I remove stop words from slugs?
Often, yes:
how-to-make-a-cake → make-cake is shorter. But keep them when they carry meaning or make the slug read naturally — it is a style choice, not a ranking factor.Kann ich Slug Generator als Web-App installieren und offline nutzen?
Ja. Slug Generator ist eine installierbare Web-App (PWA) – sie wird über Ihren Browser installiert und nicht aus einem App-Store heruntergeladen. Klicken Sie oben auf dieser Seite in Chrome oder Edge (Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS) auf „App installieren“ oder verwenden Sie auf Android-Geräten „Teilen“ → „Zum Startbildschirm hinzufügen“ auf dem iPhone und iPad bzw. „Datei“ → „Zum Dock hinzufügen“ in Safari 17+ auf einem Mac. Die App öffnet sich dann in einem eigenen Fenster mit einem eigenen Symbol, und da sie vollständig in Ihrem Browser ausgeführt wird, funktioniert sie auch offline. Firefox auf dem Desktop kann keine Web-Apps installieren. So funktioniert die Installation.