Slug generator
What Is a URL Slug?
The slug is the readable part of a URL: yoursite.com/blog/how-to-bake-bread. Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphenated, and descriptive — they help both humans (who see the topic before clicking) and search engines (which use words in URLs as a ranking signal).
Slug Best Practices
Keep it under 60 characters, use hyphens (not underscores — Google treats hyphens as word separators), strip stop words (a, the, and) for brevity, and never change a published slug without setting up a redirect — old links and bookmarks break otherwise.
How to Use the Slug Generator
Turn any headline into a clean, URL-friendly slug — lowercase, hyphen-separated, and safe for links, blog posts, and SEO. No manual editing or URL-encoding knowledge required.
- Type or paste your title, such as My Great Post!.
- The generator lowercases everything, replaces spaces with hyphens, and strips punctuation and special characters.
- Copy the slug and use it in your URL, for example
yoursite.com/blog/my-great-post.
Example
My Great Post! → my-great-post. Capitals become lowercase, the spaces become hyphens, and the exclamation mark is removed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
The readable part of a URL that identifies a page — in yoursite.com/blog/my-great-post, the slug is my-great-post.
Why do slugs matter for SEO?
Search engines and readers both prefer short, descriptive, keyword-rich URLs. A clean slug like my-great-post beats page?id=28471 every time. Descriptive slugs also get clicked more often in search results, which can lift traffic over time.
What happens to special characters and accents?
They are removed or transliterated — café typically becomes cafe — so the slug stays valid in every browser and server.