Slug Generator
Slug Generator converts a title or phrase into a clean URL slug — lowercase, hyphen-separated and free of accents and special characters. Good slugs make URLs readable for humans and search engines alike.
Paste a headline and get a ready-to-use permalink in an instant, with a configurable separator for sites that use underscores instead of hyphens.
How to use Slug Generator
- 1
Enter a title
Type or paste the article title, product name or phrase you want to convert.
- 2
Choose a separator
Keep the default hyphen, or switch to an underscore if your platform requires it.
- 3
Copy your slug
Copy the generated slug straight into your CMS or routing configuration.
What makes a good URL slug
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a page in readable words, for example "learn-javascript" in /blog/learn-javascript. Good slugs are short, lowercase, descriptive and use hyphens between words.
Search engines treat hyphens as word separators, so a clear slug can reinforce your target keyword. Avoid stop words and dates where possible to keep URLs evergreen.
How the slug is built
The tool lowercases your text, removes accents (so "Café" becomes "cafe"), strips punctuation and symbols, and replaces runs of non-alphanumeric characters with your chosen separator. Leading and trailing separators are trimmed automatically.
The result is a safe, canonical slug that works across web servers, content management systems and static site generators.
Frequently asked questions
- Does it remove accents and special characters?
- Yes. Accented letters are normalized to their basic Latin equivalents and any character that is not a letter or number is replaced by the separator.
- Can I use underscores instead of hyphens?
- Yes. Change the separator field to an underscore, or any single character you prefer.
- Are slugs good for SEO?
- Descriptive, keyword-relevant slugs help both users and search engines understand a page before they open it, which can support click-through and ranking.
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