Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, URL-friendly slug instantly.

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About Slug Generator

A URL slug is the readable, lowercase, hyphen-separated part of a web address that identifies a specific page — for example, turning 'How to Bake Sourdough Bread!' into 'how-to-bake-sourdough-bread'. Clean slugs are important for SEO and user experience: they're easier to read, share, and rank for relevant keywords. This tool strips special characters and accents, converts whitespace to your chosen separator, and optionally lowercases the result — just paste a title and copy the generated slug.

Frequently Asked Questions

Google explicitly recommends hyphens over underscores in URLs, because hyphens are treated as word separators while underscores are treated as joining characters — meaning "seo-tips" is read as two words but "seo_tips" may be read as one.

Yes, accented characters (like é, ñ, ü) are automatically converted to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent before slugifying.

Yes, lowercase slugs avoid potential duplicate-content issues on case-sensitive servers and are the standard convention across virtually all CMS platforms.