Slug Generator
Convert any title or sentence into a clean, URL-safe slug.
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — the "best-pdf-tools-2026" in example.com/blog/best-pdf-tools-2026 — and good slugs matter more than most people realize for both SEO and usability. Search engines give some weight to keywords present in the URL itself, and a clean slug makes links easier to read, share, and remember compared to an auto-generated ID or a URL still containing spaces and punctuation encoded as %20 and similar sequences.
This tool converts any title, sentence, or arbitrary text into a properly formatted slug: it normalizes accented characters to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent (é becomes e, ü becomes u), strips punctuation and special characters, collapses whitespace, and joins words with your choice of hyphen or underscore. Hyphens are the standard convention for web URLs and what Google explicitly recommends over underscores, since search engines treat hyphens as word separators but can treat underscores as joining characters.
The conversion happens instantly as you type, so you can see exactly how your title will translate before using it as a permalink, file name, or database key.
How to use Slug Generator
- 1
Enter your title or text
Type or paste the text you want converted into a slug.
- 2
Choose a separator
Toggle between hyphen (recommended for URLs) and underscore.
- 3
Choose casing
Keep lowercase on for standard URL conventions, or turn it off to preserve original casing.
- 4
Copy the slug
Use the Copy button to grab the generated slug.
Features
- Normalizes accented and non-Latin characters to plain ASCII
- Strips punctuation and special characters automatically
- Choice of hyphen or underscore separator
- Live conversion as you type
Frequently asked questions
Common mistakes to avoid
- Including stop words unnecessarily long slugs — shorter, keyword-focused slugs tend to perform better for SEO and readability.
- Changing a page's slug after it's been indexed without setting up a redirect, which breaks existing links and loses accumulated SEO value.
- Using special characters or spaces directly in a URL instead of a properly generated slug.
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