Slug Generator
Turn any title or text into a clean, URL-safe slug.
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What is Slug Generator?
A slug generator is a tool that converts a title, heading, or any free-form text into a URL-safe slug, the lowercase, hyphen-separated fragment that appears at the end of a web address. In a URL like example.com/blog/10-tips-for-better-sleep, the slug is the "10-tips-for-better-sleep" portion. Slugs are built to work reliably across browsers and servers, so they strip or replace spaces, punctuation, and special characters, and they normalize accented letters like é or ü to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent rather than breaking the URL. Search engines such as Google treat hyphens as word separators, which makes hyphenated slugs the recommended default for SEO and readability over underscores. Using a consistent, descriptive slug across a site also improves click-through and keeps the URL structure stable and shareable.
How to Use Slug Generator
- Type or paste a title, heading, or any text into the input box.
- The URL-safe slug appears instantly below.
- Switch the separator between hyphens (the standard for URLs) and underscores if needed.
- Click "Copy" to copy the generated slug.
Examples
Blog title
Input: 10 Tips for Better Sleep!
Output: 10-tips-for-better-sleep
Accented characters
Input: Café München
Output: cafe-munchen
Punctuation
Input: What's New? A Guide.
Output: whats-new-a-guide
Common Mistakes
- Including special characters or emoji in a URL slug — they often need percent-encoding, which produces ugly, hard-to-share URLs.
- Changing an existing page's slug without setting up a redirect from the old URL — this breaks existing links and loses accumulated SEO value.
- Using very long slugs — keep them concise; search engines and users both respond better to a short, descriptive slug than a full sentence.
- Mixing separator styles (some pages with hyphens, others with underscores) across the same site.
Why Use This Tool
- Correctly handles accented and non-ASCII characters instead of just stripping them.
- Configurable separator (hyphen or underscore) for different platform conventions.
- Instant, client-side conversion with no character limit.
- Collapses repeated spaces/punctuation into a single clean separator automatically.