The readable tail of a URL — the 'my-first-post' in example.com/blog/my-first-post. It is made from a title by lowercasing it, removing punctuation and accents, and joining the words with hyphens.

Hyphens or underscores — which is better?

Hyphens. Search engines treat a hyphen as a word separator, so 'better-sleep-tips' reads as three words; underscores are treated as joiners, making one long word. Underscores are mainly useful inside file names and code.

What happens to accents and special characters?

Accented letters are folded to their plain form (é → e, ñ → n), punctuation is dropped, and runs of spaces become a single separator — so 'Café: 10 Tips & Tricks!' becomes 'cafe-10-tips-tricks'.

How long should a slug be?

Short enough to read at a glance, long enough to say what the page is. Three to six words covering the topic is the sweet spot; filler words like 'the' and 'a' can stay or go — this tool keeps short words so the slug still reads naturally.

Slug Generator

Paste a title and get a clean, URL-safe slug — the readable tail every blog post, product page and video link needs.

Title or headline

Separator

Lowercase the slug

Your slug

How to use it

Paste the title exactly as written — capitals, punctuation, accents and all.

Pick a separator. Hyphens for web pages; underscores for file names.

Copy the slug into your CMS, store or router — it updates live as you edit the title.

Small string, real consequences

A slug is the one part of a URL humans actually read — in search results, in shared links, in analytics reports months later. A clean slug tells a visitor what the page is before they click, and tells search engines the same. The rules are simple but tedious to apply by hand across a whole catalogue: lowercase, no punctuation, no accents, no doubled separators, nothing trailing. This generator applies them as fast as you can type, so the slug you ship is the slug you meant.

Slug Generator

How to use it

Small string, real consequences

Related tools