URL Slug Generator
Convert titles into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs instantly.
Why use it
Clean URLs for better SEO
Works everywhere
Safe slugs for any CMS: WordPress, Webflow, Astro, Next.js, Hugo, Ghost, and any framework.
100% private
Conversion happens in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server.
SEO optimized
Produces slugs with hyphens, no accents, and lowercase letters — exactly what Google recommends.
Instant
The slug appears as you type. No submit buttons, no waiting.
How it works
Three steps, no hassle
Enter your title or text
Type or paste the title, article name, or any text you want to turn into a URL slug.
Automatic conversion
The slug generates instantly: spaces become hyphens, uppercase becomes lowercase, accents are removed, special characters stripped.
Copy the slug
Copy the generated slug with one click and use it in your CMS, file path, or git branch name.
FAQ
Got questions?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page. In the URL 'mysite.com/blog/how-to-build-an-app', the slug is 'how-to-build-an-app'. Slugs replace full titles in URLs: they convert spaces to hyphens, remove special characters, and use only lowercase letters to create a clean, readable address compatible with all web servers.
Google uses the URL as a relevance signal for a page's content. A descriptive slug containing the primary keyword improves search ranking. URLs with clean slugs also get higher click-through rates in search results because users can read what the page is about before visiting. Google explicitly recommends short, descriptive URLs in its Search Console guidelines.
Accented characters (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ) are transliterated to their plain ASCII equivalents (a, e, i, o, u, u, n). This process is called transliteration or Unicode normalization (NFD form followed by diacritic mark removal). It is the expected behavior for slugs because it maintains readability without using URL percent-encoding.
There is no strict technical limit, but SEO best practices recommend keeping slugs to 3-5 keywords, typically 20-60 characters. Very long URLs may be truncated in search results. Google does not directly penalize long slugs, but short, precise slugs tend to earn more clicks and are easier to share.
Use hyphens (-), not underscores (_). Google treats hyphens as word separators: 'slug-generator' is two words, 'slug_generator' is one word. This means a hyphenated slug indexes better for individual word searches. Google's John Mueller has confirmed this difference on multiple occasions. Hyphens are also the universal standard in all modern CMS platforms.
URL slug generator: the complete guide to URLs that rank
A well-crafted URL slug is one of the simplest and most effective on-page SEO factors. Unlike URLs auto-generated with numeric IDs like '/p?id=4823' or unprocessed titles like '/How-To-Build-An-App-in-2024?', a clean slug like '/how-to-build-an-app' communicates the page's topic to search engines and users before they click.
The technical process of creating a slug involves several ordered steps: first, convert everything to lowercase; second, normalize Unicode characters (NFD form) to separate base letters from their diacritic marks; third, remove the diacritic marks; fourth, replace spaces and special characters with hyphens; fifth, remove consecutive hyphens or hyphens at the start and end of the string. This process guarantees a slug compliant with RFC 3986 and all HTTP servers.
Modern CMS platforms like WordPress, Ghost, and Webflow generate slugs automatically, but the results often include unnecessary stop words, are too long, or handle non-English languages poorly. Generating the slug manually with this tool and pasting it into the CMS field gives full control over the final URL — particularly valuable for multilingual content projects where accents and special characters can cause inconsistencies across environments.