URL Slug Generator

What Is the URL Slug Generator?

The URL Slug Generator converts a title, heading, or any piece of text into a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug ready to drop into a URL. Type or paste your text, click Create Slug, and the output strips out special characters, replaces spaces with hyphens, and lowercases everything. It is used by bloggers, developers, and content managers who need page slugs quickly without manually editing a title into URL-safe format every time they publish something.

Manually slugifying a title sounds trivial until you are doing it for twenty posts in a row, or the title has accented characters and special punctuation that need to be handled correctly rather than just deleted at random.

How to Use This Tool

1. Paste or type your text into the input box above. A blog post title, page heading, product name, or any other text works.
2. No settings needed. The tool lowercases the text, replaces spaces with hyphens, and removes characters that are not URL-safe.
3. Click Create Slug and the formatted slug appears in the output area.
4. Copy the result using the Copy button, or select and copy manually. Use Clear to reset the input.

When Would You Use This?

Generating a URL slug for a new blog post, article, or landing page before publishing, so the page URL is clean, readable, and consistent with standard web formatting conventions.

Creating slugs for product pages, category pages, or any CMS entries where the platform asks you to enter a URL slug separately from the page title and you want to get the format right without thinking about it.

Batch-generating slugs for a list of page titles when migrating or setting up a website, where doing the formatting manually for every entry would take considerably longer than running them through this tool.

Examples

Basic blog title to slug

Input   : My Blog Title
Output  : my-blog-title

Title with punctuation and special characters

Input   : How to Build a Website: A Beginner's Guide!
Output  : how-to-build-a-website-a-beginners-guide

Title with accented characters

Input   : Café Culture in Paris
Output  : cafe-culture-in-paris

Title with numbers

Input   : 10 Tips for Better Sleep in 2025
Output  : 10-tips-for-better-sleep-in-2025

Product name to slug

Input   : Blue Wireless Headphones (Model X500)
Output  : blue-wireless-headphones-model-x500

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a URL slug?

A URL slug is the part of a web address that identifies a specific page, usually appearing after the domain name. For example, in https://example.com/my-blog-post, the slug is my-blog-post. Slugs are typically lowercase, use hyphens instead of spaces, and contain only URL-safe characters.

Why do URLs use hyphens instead of spaces?

Spaces are not valid in URLs and are either encoded as %20 or cause broken links. Hyphens are the standard replacement because they are readable, supported by all browsers, and treated as word separators by search engines. Underscores technically work but hyphens are generally preferred for SEO.

How do I create an SEO-friendly URL slug?

Use lowercase letters, replace spaces with hyphens, remove special characters and punctuation, and keep the slug reasonably short while including the main keywords. This tool applies all of those rules automatically.

Should I include stop words in a URL slug?

Stop words are small words like "a", "an", "the", "and", "or", and "but". Most SEO guidance suggests removing them from slugs to keep URLs shorter and more focused on the main keywords. Some CMSs include them by default, others strip them out. The short answer is: shorter is usually better.

Does this tool handle accented characters?

Yes. Accented characters like é, ü, and ñ are typically converted to their plain ASCII equivalents (e, u, n) so the slug stays URL-safe without encoding those characters.

What characters are not allowed in a URL slug?

Characters like spaces, punctuation marks, symbols, and anything outside the standard ASCII range are either removed or replaced. Only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens should appear in a well-formed slug.

How long should a URL slug be?

There is no hard technical limit, but shorter slugs are generally considered better for readability and usability. Most SEO practitioners aim for slugs that are between 3 and 6 words, covering the main topic without unnecessary filler.

Can I use numbers in a URL slug?

Yes. Numbers are perfectly valid in URL slugs and are sometimes useful, especially for year references, numbered lists, or model numbers in product URLs.

Does changing a URL slug affect SEO?

Yes. Changing an existing page's slug creates a new URL, and if the old URL is not properly redirected with a 301 redirect, any existing search rankings and links pointing to the old URL stop working for the new page. Always set up a redirect when changing a live page's slug.