Slug Generator

A URL slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — like /my-awesome-blog-post in https://example.com/my-awesome-blog-post. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens to separate words, and contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens.

Slugs matter for SEO because search engines use URL keywords as a ranking signal. A URL like /how-to-learn-python tells Google exactly what the page is about, while /post?id=12345 tells it nothing. Slugs also improve link sharing — humans can read and remember clean URLs.

Slug generation involves lowercasing, replacing spaces with hyphens (or underscores), removing special characters, transliterating accented characters (cafe becomes cafe), and optionally removing common stop words (a, the, is, of) to keep URLs short. This tool handles all of these transformations in real time as you type.