Slug Generator

How to Use

Type or paste a title, and the slug appears instantly below. Choose a hyphen or underscore as the word separator, then click Copy. Use it for blog post URLs, page permalinks, file names, or anywhere you need a safe, readable identifier.

Why This Tool Is Useful

A good URL slug is short, readable, and free of spaces, accents, and special characters that can break links or look messy. Creating one by hand means lowercasing, replacing spaces, and stripping punctuation every time. This tool does it in one step and handles the tricky parts — like accented characters and repeated separators — automatically.

What Is a URL Slug?

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — for example, the 'free-online-tools' in example.com/blog/free-online-tools. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, and contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens.

Why Slugs Matter for SEO

A clean, descriptive slug helps both users and search engines understand what a page is about before they even open it. Descriptive slugs with relevant keywords are easier to read, more likely to be clicked, and clearer in search results than URLs full of numbers or random characters.

Keep slugs concise — remove filler words like 'the' and 'a' where you can, and aim for a few meaningful words.

Hyphen vs Underscore

For URLs, hyphens are the standard and are recommended by Google, which treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as joiners. So 'free-tools' reads as two words to a search engine, while 'free_tools' can read as one. Use hyphens for web URLs; underscores are more common in file names and code.

What This Tool Handles

The generator cleans up several things automatically:

• Converts everything to lowercase.
• Removes accents (café becomes cafe).
• Strips punctuation and symbols.
• Replaces spaces with your chosen separator and collapses repeats.

Title to Slug Examples