URL Slug Generator
A title goes in, a clean web address comes out: lowercase, accents transliterated, consistent separators. Paste several titles, one per line, to convert them all at once.
A good slug is free SEO
A page's address is one of the first things both visitors and search engines see. A clean slug (short, descriptive, lowercase, hyphen-separated) keeps the URL readable, avoids encoded characters like "%C3%A9" and gives the page its best shot in search results. That is exactly what this tool produces, handling the tricky cases correctly: accented letters in borrowed words like café or résumé, ligatures, apostrophes and ampersands. Titles in non-Latin scripts are reduced to the Latin letters and digits they contain, so consider romanizing them first.
Tip: keep your slugs under about sixty characters and drop stop words when the title runs long. To check the length of your titles and descriptions, use our character counter; to tidy the text beforehand, the text cleaner handles the first pass.
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
The slug is the final, human-readable part of a web address, the bit that describes the page: in example.com/apple-pie-recipe, the slug is "apple-pie-recipe". A short, descriptive slug with no special characters is easier for visitors to read and better understood by search engines.
How are accented and special characters converted?
Accented letters found in borrowed words are transliterated to their base letter (café becomes cafe, résumé becomes resume, jalapeño becomes jalapeno), ligatures are expanded (æ becomes ae), apostrophes become separators (don't becomes don-t) and the ampersand is converted to "and". For titles written in non-Latin scripts, the slug is built from the Latin letters and digits present in the title. Everything else is reduced to letters, digits and hyphens.
Hyphen or underscore in a URL?
Go with the hyphen: Google treats hyphens as word separators, whereas underscores glue words together. The tool offers both separators, but the hyphen is the recommended choice for SEO.