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Slug Generator

Convert any title or text into a URL-friendly slug. Choose hyphen or underscore separator. Great for blog posts and SEO.

What is a slug? A URL-friendly version of a title. Used in blog posts, product pages, and article URLs. e.g. how-to-build-a-website-in-2025

How to Use

  1. 1

    Enter your text

    Type a page title, product name, or any phrase.

  2. 2

    Choose separator

    Select hyphen (-) or underscore (_) as the word separator.

  3. 3

    Copy the slug

    Click Copy to copy the URL-safe slug for use in your site or app.

How It Works

This tool converts any title or phrase into a clean, URL-safe slug — lowercase, hyphen- or underscore-separated, with special characters and accents normalized — the format search engines and URL routing systems expect.

What makes a slug "URL-safe"

A slug strips spaces (replacing them with hyphens or underscores), removes punctuation and special characters, converts to lowercase, and normalizes accented characters to their plain equivalents (é → e) — since URLs technically allow a limited character set and non-ASCII or special characters can cause issues in some systems or just look messy in a shared link.

Why hyphens are generally preferred over underscores for SEO

Google's search algorithm treats a hyphen as a word separator (so "how-to-cook" is read as three words: how, to, cook) but treats an underscore as joining words together (so "how_to_cook" may be read as one token) — this is why most SEO guidance recommends hyphens for URL slugs specifically.

Examples

Blog post title to slug

"10 Tips for Better Sleep!" becomes "10-tips-for-better-sleep" — lowercase, punctuation removed, spaces replaced with hyphens.

Handling accented characters

"Café & Résumé Tips" becomes "cafe-resume-tips" — accents normalized and the ampersand removed entirely.

Common Use Cases

  • Creating SEO-friendly URLs for blog posts, product pages, or articles
  • Generating consistent file or folder names from titles
  • Converting user-submitted titles into safe identifiers for a database or CMS

Tips

  • Use hyphens rather than underscores for anything URL-facing and SEO-relevant — it's the format Google's algorithm parses most reliably as separate, searchable words.
  • Keep slugs reasonably short and keyword-relevant rather than copying an entire long title verbatim — very long URLs are harder to share and don't meaningfully help search ranking beyond the first few relevant words.

Frequently Asked Questions

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