Slug Generator

A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page, usually placed after the domain — for example the my-post-title in yoursite.com/blog/my-post-title. It replaces a database ID or query string with something a human (and a search engine) can actually read.

Spaces get encoded as %20 in URLs, uppercase letters can create duplicate-content issues since some servers treat /Page and /page as different URLs, and special characters or punctuation often need escaping. Stripping all of that down to lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens keeps every URL on a site consistent and safe to share, copy or type.

The generator normalizes the text first, which splits accented characters into a base letter and a separate accent mark, then strips the accent mark out entirely — so é becomes e and ü becomes u. Anything left that isn't a letter or number is then converted into your chosen separator.

Google has confirmed it treats a hyphen as a word separator but treats an underscore as joining two words into one — so blue_widget can be read as "bluewidget" rather than "blue widget" for search purposes. Hyphens are the safer default for SEO, which is why this tool sets hyphen as the default separator.

Keep it short and focused on the keywords that matter — a slug like /best-running-shoes-2026 tells both users and search engines what the page is about at a glance. Dropping filler words (a, the, of) and stopping at 3-6 meaningful words usually gives the best balance of clarity and length.