Slug Generator
Convert any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug. Removes special characters, converts spaces to hyphens, and lowercases everything. Perfect for blog posts, pages, and SEO URLs.
What Is a URL Slug?
A slug is the human-readable portion of a URL that identifies a specific page. In example.com/blog/my-first-post, the slug is my-first-post. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens to separate words, and contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens. They make URLs readable for both users and search engines, improving click-through rates and making links easier to share.
Slug Generation Rules
1. Convert to lowercase
2. Remove accents and diacritics (NFD normalization)
3. Strip special characters (keep a-z, 0-9, spaces)
4. Replace spaces with hyphens (or underscores)
5. Remove leading and trailing hyphens
How the Slug Generator Works
Enter any text such as a blog post title, product name, or page heading. The tool normalizes Unicode characters using NFD decomposition to strip accents (e.g., "cafe" from "café"), removes all non-alphanumeric characters, replaces whitespace with your chosen separator, and collapses consecutive separators into one. The result is a clean, URL-safe string ready to use in your CMS, router, or file system. You can choose between hyphens and underscores depending on your project conventions.
SEO Best Practices for URL Slugs
Search engines use URL slugs as a ranking signal. Include your target keyword in the slug, keep it under 60 characters, and avoid stop words like "the," "and," or "of" when they add no meaning. Shorter slugs perform better in search results and are easier to remember. Once a page is published and indexed, avoid changing its slug unless you set up a 301 redirect, as broken URLs lose accumulated link equity and cause 404 errors for existing backlinks.