Slug Generator
Convert text to a clean URL-friendly slug.
About Slug Generator
A slug is the URL-safe part of a web address — lowercase, no spaces, no special characters. Used in blog posts, CMS systems, and SEO-friendly URLs. This tool handles accented characters, punctuation, and common symbols automatically.
FAQ
- What characters are removed?
- All characters that are not letters, digits, or the chosen separator are stripped or replaced. Accented characters are normalized (e.g. é → e).
- Which separator is best for SEO?
- Hyphens (-) are recommended by Google for URL slugs. Underscores are treated as a single word by search engines.
- Can I generate slugs for multiple titles?
- This tool handles one title at a time. For batch conversion, use the Remove Duplicate Lines or a bulk text tool.
ABOUT THIS TOOL
Type or paste a title and the tool converts it into a lowercase, hyphenated, URL-safe slug by stripping punctuation and special characters. Bloggers and developers use it to generate consistent, SEO-friendly URL paths for pages and posts. It replaces spaces with hyphens, removes characters that aren't valid in URLs like apostrophes, colons, and ampersands, and collapses repeated hyphens into one so you don't end up with awkward double dashes. This turns a headline like "What's New in 2026? A Guide!" into a clean path such as whats-new-in-2026-a-guide, ready to drop straight into a CMS permalink field.
HOW TO USE
- Type or paste your page title or heading into the input box
- Let the tool automatically strip punctuation and convert spaces to hyphens
- Review the generated slug shown below the input
- Edit the result manually if you want to shorten it or remove filler words
- Copy the slug and paste it into your CMS URL or permalink field
COMMON USE CASES
- A blogger creating a permalink for a new post title before publishing
- A developer generating consistent URL paths for a list of product names in an e-commerce catalog
- An SEO editor shortening a long headline into a cleaner, keyword-focused URL slug
- A documentation writer converting section headings into anchor-link-friendly identifiers
- A marketer standardizing campaign landing page URLs across multiple languages or regions
TIPS & COMMON MISTAKES
- Numbers are preserved as-is, so version numbers or years in a title stay intact in the slug
- Accented characters (like é or ñ) are typically converted to their closest plain-letter equivalent so the slug stays fully ASCII and URL-safe
- Very long titles produce very long slugs — for SEO, consider manually trimming to the core keywords rather than using the full auto-generated string
- Stop words like 'a', 'the', and 'and' are kept by default since removing them automatically can sometimes change meaning; trim them manually if you prefer shorter SEO-focused slugs
MORE QUESTIONS
- Does the slug generator remove common words like 'the' or 'and' automatically?
- No, it converts the full title into slug format without deciding which words are unimportant. If you want a shorter, keyword-focused slug, remove filler words manually before or after generating.
- How does it handle titles with numbers or years?
- Digits are kept exactly as typed and just get separated by hyphens where needed, so "Top 10 Tools 2026" becomes top-10-tools-2026.
- What happens to special characters like & or %?
- Characters that aren't safe or standard in URLs are stripped out entirely rather than encoded, so "Rock & Roll" becomes rock-roll rather than rock-%26-roll.
- Is there an ideal slug length for SEO?
- There's no strict rule, but shorter slugs focused on the main keywords are generally easier to read and share than a full verbatim copy of a long title — this tool gives you the raw conversion and leaves length trimming up to you.