A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page: in example.com/blog/how-to-learn-python, the bold part is the slug. Good slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated, free of accents and punctuation, and short enough to read at a glance — qualities search engines explicitly reward and users instinctively trust.
This generator converts any title into a clean slug: it lowercases the text, transliterates accented characters (café → cafe), strips punctuation, and joins words with hyphens. Paste a headline, copy a URL-ready slug.
How to Use This Tool
- Paste your article title or page name.
- The slug is generated instantly — lowercase, hyphenated, ASCII-safe.
- Copy it into your CMS, router, or file name.
- Optionally trim filler words (a, the, of) to keep slugs short.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why hyphens instead of underscores?
Google has stated that hyphens are treated as word separators while underscores historically were not — 'how-to-cook' is read as three words, 'how_to_cook' risks being read as one. Hyphens are also easier to see in underlined links.
Do slugs affect SEO?
Modestly, yes. A descriptive slug gives search engines and users a clear signal about the page topic, appears bold in results when it matches the query, and produces cleaner anchor text when people paste the link.
What happens to accents and special characters?
They are transliterated to their closest ASCII equivalent: é becomes e, ñ becomes n, & becomes 'and' or is dropped. This guarantees the URL works everywhere without percent-encoding ugliness.