URL Slug Generator
Convert text to URL-friendly slugs. Perfect for blog posts, products, and SEO-friendly URLs.
URL slugs are SEO-friendly URLs that describe the page content. Example:
https://example.com/blog/your-slug-here
Transform titles and text into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs. Handles special characters, accents, and multiple spaces. Choose your separator and case format.
A URL slug is the human-readable portion of a URL that identifies a specific page — the "how-to-center-a-div" in /blog/how-to-center-a-div. Clean slugs help both humans (they hint at the page's content before you click) and search engines (keywords in the URL are a minor ranking signal, and descriptive slugs attract more clicks from search results).
Generating a slug by hand from a title like "Coffee & Doughnuts: A Designer's Review (2024)" is tedious — you have to strip punctuation, collapse spaces, lowercase everything, handle the ampersand sensibly, and deal with the accented letters if any. This tool does all of it: it transliterates accented characters (café becomes cafe), strips punctuation, replaces spaces and special characters with a separator of your choice (hyphens are standard for SEO, underscores acceptable for internal tools), collapses consecutive separators, and trims leading/trailing separators.
Typical use is blog post publishing, product pages in e-commerce, event and webinar landing pages, forum thread URLs, and any CMS that needs a URL-friendly identifier generated from a human title. Output stays lowercase by default since URLs are case-sensitive on most servers and lowercase is the widely-followed convention.
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Paste your title or text
Drop in any phrase — a blog title, product name, or category label. The converter handles multiple words, punctuation, and accented characters.
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Pick your separator
Choose hyphen (default, best for SEO) or underscore. The separator replaces spaces and punctuation and collapses any repeated runs into a single character.
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Copy the slug
The lowercase, URL-safe slug appears instantly. Copy it into your CMS, router, or database with one click.
Blog post URLs
Turn article titles into clean URLs for WordPress, Ghost, or custom blogs — "10 Tips for Faster Builds" becomes /blog/10-tips-for-faster-builds.
E-commerce product pages
Generate SEO-friendly product slugs from names — "Men's Leather Wallet — Brown" becomes /products/mens-leather-wallet-brown.
Event landing pages
Create shareable URLs for webinars and conferences where the slug previews the topic to anyone who sees the link.
Forum and community threads
Append slugs to numeric IDs (like Stack Overflow's /questions/123/how-to-foo) so URLs remain human-readable when shared.
Are hyphens or underscores better for SEO?
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but reads underscores as joining characters, so "word-one" is indexed as two words while "word_one" is one token. Use hyphens unless you have a specific reason not to.
How are accented characters handled?
They're transliterated to ASCII equivalents — é becomes e, ü becomes u, ñ becomes n — using Unicode normalization. This keeps slugs portable across systems and avoids percent-encoding in URLs.
What happens to symbols like & and %?
They're removed or replaced with the separator. If you want "rock & roll" to become "rock-and-roll" rather than "rock-roll", write "and" explicitly in the source title.
Does the output have a length limit?
The tool imposes none, but practical SEO advice is to keep slugs under roughly 60–75 characters. Very long slugs get truncated in search snippets and emails.
Can I use non-Latin scripts?
Non-Latin characters (Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic) are typically transliterated or dropped. For international sites, consider URL-encoded native-script slugs, which modern browsers handle well but look odd when shared.