Slug Generator (URL Maker)
Turns any title or phrase into a clean URL slug. Strips special characters, converts spaces to hyphens (or underscores), and lowercases everything. Useful for blog posts, product pages, or any CMS that needs a clean URL.
Quick examples:
How to use
- Type or paste your page title.
- The slug is generated instantly as you type.
- Toggle between hyphens and underscores depending on what your platform expects.
- Click Copy when you're happy with it.
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A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies the page. For a blog post titled 'Top 10 Ways to Save Money in 2024', a clean slug would be top-10-ways-to-save-money-in-2024. Slugs should be lowercase, use hyphens not spaces, and avoid special characters, accented letters, and stop words where possible.
Clean slugs matter for SEO (descriptive URLs rank better than random IDs), for shareability, and for accessibility (screen readers and users can predict what a URL leads to from its slug). This tool converts any title or text into a properly formatted slug, stripping punctuation and replacing spaces with hyphens.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I include stop words in a slug?
Short stop words (a, an, the, of, in, etc.) are generally removed from slugs both to keep them shorter and because they add little SEO value. 'introduction-to-machine-learning' is cleaner and equivalent in meaning to 'an-introduction-to-machine-learning'.
What characters are not allowed in a URL slug?
Spaces, special characters like #, ?, &, =, and most punctuation are not safe in URLs or need percent-encoding. Letters, numbers, and hyphens are universally safe. Underscores technically work but Google treats them as word joiners rather than separators, so hyphens are preferred for SEO.
Should slugs match the page title exactly?
Not necessarily. Slugs should be descriptive and include target keywords, but can omit filler words the title needs for readability. A title like 'Here Is Why Your Budget Is Not Working' could have a slug of 'why-budget-not-working'.