Slug / URL Generator

Free URL Slug Generator

Convert any article title, product name, or piece of text into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. This tool removes special characters, normalizes whitespace, and handles diacritics (accented letters) so that your URLs look professional and are safe for all browsers.

Why Slugs Matter for SEO

Search engines like Google use URL slugs as a strong on-page ranking signal. A URL like /my-awesome-blog-post outperforms /post?id=1234 consistently. Short, descriptive slugs with relevant keywords also improve click-through rates in search results by giving users and crawlers an immediate preview of the page content.

Hyphen vs. Underscore — Which to Use?

Google officially recommends hyphens (-) as word separators in URLs. Hyphens are treated as word boundaries by search engines, meaning my-blog-post is read as three separate words. Underscores (_) are treated as word joiners — my_blog_post is read as the single token myblogpost. Use hyphens for public-facing URLs and underscores only when required by a specific system or convention (e.g. Python package names).

URL Slug Best Practices

• Keep slugs short and descriptive — ideally under 60 characters.
• Use lowercase only — avoids duplicate content issues from case-sensitive servers.
• Include your primary keyword near the start of the slug.
• Omit stop words (a, the, of, in) where they do not add meaning.
• Avoid dates in slugs unless the content is time-sensitive — they age poorly.
• Use hyphens not underscores, spaces, or special characters.

What This Tool Handles

• Diacritics — accented letters like é, ü, ñ are converted to their ASCII equivalents (e, u, n).
• Special characters — punctuation, symbols, and emoji are removed.
• Whitespace — multiple spaces, tabs, and line breaks are collapsed to a single separator.
• Leading/trailing separators — stripped so the slug starts and ends cleanly.
• Numbers — optional removal for slugs where numeric suffixes would look unprofessional.