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Slug Generator

Convert a title or sentence into a clean, lowercase, URL-safe slug. Accents are normalised and punctuation is stripped, with a hyphen or underscore separator.

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Quick answer

Slug is a free, private online tool that lets you turn any title or sentence into a clean, URL-safe slug. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded to a server.

How to use the Slug

  1. Type or paste a title or sentence.
  2. Pick a separator — hyphen (recommended for SEO) or underscore.
  3. The clean, URL-safe slug appears below.
  4. Click Copy to use it in your URL.

Privacy: this tool runs entirely in your browser. Your input is never sent to, received by, or stored on any server — there are no uploads and no tracking of what you enter.

About Slug

What is a slug?

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like 10-best-seo-tips. Good slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated and free of special characters — better for SEO and sharing.

How it works

The generator lowercases the text, transliterates accented letters (é → e), removes punctuation, and joins words with your chosen separator, collapsing repeats.

Best practices

Keep slugs short and descriptive, include your target keyword, and use hyphens (Google treats them as word separators) rather than underscores.

Frequently asked questions

Hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens are recommended for SEO — search engines treat them as spaces between words, while underscores join words together.
Does it handle accented characters?
Yes — accents are normalised, so Café becomes cafe.
Are uppercase letters kept?
No — slugs are lowercased for consistency and to avoid duplicate-URL issues.

Understanding Slug in depth

What a slug is

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page - the 10-best-seo-tips in example.com/blog/10-best-seo-tips. A slug generator turns any title or sentence into a clean, URL-safe version: lowercase, hyphen-separated, and stripped of characters that do not belong in a web address.

How a clean slug is made

The generator lowercases the text, removes punctuation and special characters, converts spaces to your chosen separator, and collapses any repeats. It also transliterates accented characters - so Cafe with an accent becomes cafe - ensuring the slug contains only safe, plain characters that work in every browser and system.

Why slugs matter for SEO

A descriptive slug helps both users and search engines understand what a page is about before they even open it. Search engines treat words in the URL as a minor ranking signal and display the slug in results, so a clean, keyword-relevant slug improves clarity and click-through. Short, readable slugs also look more trustworthy when shared.

Hyphens versus underscores

For SEO, hyphens are strongly preferred over underscores. Google treats hyphens as word separators (so seo-tips reads as two words) but treats underscores as joiners (seo_tips can read as one word). This tool defaults to hyphens for that reason, though you can switch to underscores if a system requires them.

How to use it

Type or paste a title and the slug appears instantly, ready to copy into your CMS, blog or app. Keep slugs short and include your main keyword for the best results. Everything runs in your browser.

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