It's tempting to turn a full page title directly into a URL slug, stop-words and all — "the-10-best-ways-to-improve-your-morning-routine-in-2026" — but shorter, focused slugs tend to read better in a search result and are easier for people to remember or type from memory.
Stop-words rarely add anything to a slug
Words like "the," "a," "of" and "and" carry almost no search signal on their own and mostly just add length. Removing them from a slug ("10-ways-improve-morning-routine") keeps the meaningful keywords while cutting unnecessary characters.
Consistency matters more than any single rule
Whatever slug pattern you choose — with or without stop-words, dashes vs no separators at all — the bigger win is applying it consistently across a whole site, so URLs don't look like they were generated by three different systems over the years.
TeckForge's URL Slug Generator converts any title into a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug, with an option to automatically strip common stop-words, so you're not manually deciding what to cut every time.
