Slug Generator
Convert any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug instantly. Perfect for blog posts, pages, and SEO-optimized URLs.
How to Use the Slug Generator
- Enter your text — Type or paste a title, heading, or any text you want to turn into a slug.
- Configure options — Choose hyphen or underscore separator, set a max length, and toggle transliteration.
- See the result — The slug generates automatically as you type, with no button press needed.
- Copy the slug — Click "Copy Slug" to copy the result and paste it into your CMS, code, or URL field.
About URL Slugs
A URL slug is the human-readable portion of a web address that identifies a specific page. Clean, descriptive slugs are a cornerstone of good SEO practice. Search engines use the words in a URL to understand page content, and users are more likely to click on links with readable, descriptive URLs in search results.
This slug generator follows best practices for URL slug creation: converting text to lowercase, replacing spaces with hyphens (or underscores), removing special characters, collapsing consecutive separators, and optionally transliterating accented characters to their ASCII equivalents. The result is a clean, web-safe string ready to use in any URL, CMS, or routing system.
Frequently Asked Questions
A URL slug is the part of a web address after the domain that identifies a specific page in human-readable form. For example, in "example.com/blog/my-first-post," the slug is "my-first-post." Good slugs use lowercase letters, hyphens, and relevant keywords.
Search engines use URL slugs to understand what a page is about. Descriptive slugs with relevant keywords can improve rankings. Clean URLs also earn higher click-through rates because users can see what the page contains before clicking.
Google recommends using hyphens (-) as word separators in URLs. Google treats hyphens as word separators but treats underscores as word joiners. For best SEO results, use hyphens. Underscores are more common in programming contexts like file names and database fields.
Transliteration converts accented and special characters to their closest ASCII equivalents. For example, "cafe" with an accent becomes "cafe," and "strasse" with a sharp s becomes "strasse." This ensures maximum compatibility across all browsers and servers.