Slug Generator

What is a URL slug?

A URL slug is the human-readable, search-engine-friendly part of a URL that identifies a specific page. For example, in the URL https://example.com/blog/how-to-make-slug, the slug is how-to-make-slug. A good slug is short, descriptive, uses lowercase letters, and separates words with hyphens. Slugs are a fundamental part of clean URL design and play a role in both user experience and search engine optimization.

Slugs are typically generated from page titles or headings by converting the text to lowercase, removing special characters and accents, replacing spaces and punctuation with a separator (usually a hyphen), and trimming leading or trailing separators. This tool automates that process while letting you choose the separator and whether to lowercase the input.

Why slugs matter for SEO

URL slugs matter for SEO because search engines use them as a ranking signal. A descriptive slug that includes relevant keywords helps search engines understand what the page is about, and it also helps users decide whether to click when they see the URL in search results. Studies show that clean, keyword-rich URLs tend to achieve higher click-through rates than URLs with query parameters or random IDs.

Google's guidelines recommend using simple, descriptive words in URLs, separating them with hyphens, and avoiding unnecessary parameters. A slug like /blog/best-coffee-grinders is far better for SEO than /blog/post?id=12345. The slug generator helps you create these clean URLs consistently and quickly.

When to use a slug generator

A slug generator is useful in many web development and content creation scenarios:

• Blog and CMS publishing. Generate slugs from article titles when publishing posts in WordPress, Ghost, Hugo, Gatsby, or any other CMS.
• E-commerce product URLs. Create clean product page URLs from product names for better SEO and user experience.
• Static site generation. Generate file names and URL paths from content titles when building static sites.
• API design. Create consistent resource identifiers from user-provided text.
• File naming. Generate clean, cross-platform file names from titles or headings.

How to generate a slug

Generating a slug with this tool takes a second and happens entirely in your browser. Follow these three steps:

1. Configure options. Choose a separator (hyphen or underscore) and decide whether to lowercase the input using the checkboxes above the input box.
2. Paste your text. Type or paste the title, heading, or any text you want to convert into a slug in the input box.
3. Click "Generate Slug" and copy. The slug appears in the output box. Click "Copy" to copy it.

The tool normalises Unicode text (NFD), strips diacritical marks, removes special characters, replaces whitespace with your chosen separator, deduplicates consecutive separators, and trims leading/trailing separators.

Slug best practices

For best SEO results, keep slugs short (3–5 words), use lowercase, include primary keywords, and avoid stop words like "the", "a", "an" when possible. Hyphens are the preferred separator for URLs because search engines treat them as word boundaries, while underscores are sometimes treated as part of a single word.

If your text contains accented characters (like é, ñ, ü), the tool normalises them using Unicode NFD decomposition and strips the combining diacritical marks, so "café" becomes "cafe" and "niño" becomes "nino". This ensures your slugs are ASCII-safe and work correctly across all systems. Non-Latin scripts (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.) will have their characters removed, so consider providing a transliterated title for those languages.