Free Slug Generator Online
Convert any title or phrase into a URL-friendly slug. Removes special characters, replaces spaces with hyphens, and lowercases everything for clean, SEO-friendly URLs.
A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable form — for example, 'how-to-generate-url-slugs' in 'example.com/blog/how-to-generate-url-slugs'. Good slugs are lowercase, contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens, and have no consecutive or leading/trailing hyphens. They affect both usability (readable URLs are easier to share and remember) and SEO (search engines use URL words as a relevance signal). This tool converts any title or phrase into a clean, URL-safe slug: it lowercases everything, replaces spaces with hyphens, removes punctuation, strips accents from accented characters, and trims the result.
Slug Generator
How to use this slug generator
- Type or paste a title or phrase into the input box.
- The slug appears instantly below the input.
- Choose a separator: hyphen (recommended) or underscore.
- Click Copy to put the slug on your clipboard.
Common use cases
- Generating a URL slug for a new blog post or article from its title
- Creating a unique, URL-safe key for a database record from a human-readable name
- Producing a file name from a document title without special characters or spaces
- Generating route paths in a web application from category or product names
Frequently asked questions
Does the slug affect SEO?
Yes, meaningfully. Search engines read the words in a URL as a relevance signal. Clean slugs also improve click-through rates in search results because they tell users what a page is about before they click. Keep slugs focused on the most important 3–5 keywords.
Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators, making 'how-to-bake-bread' equivalent to three separate words in the URL. Underscores are treated as word joiners. Hyphens are the modern standard for slugs.
What happens to accented characters like é or ü?
The tool converts accented Latin characters to their ASCII equivalents: é becomes e, ü becomes u. This produces slugs that work on all servers without percent-encoding.
How long should a slug be?
Most practitioners aim for 3 to 5 meaningful words — long enough to be readable, short enough to be shareable. Drop stop words (a, the, and, or) unless they are critical to meaning.