Slug Generator

From Title to Slug, Live

Type or paste a title and the slug appears instantly — no button, no page reload. The converter applies five transformations in order:

The result contains only lowercase letters, digits and single hyphens — safe in every browser, CMS and sitemap without further escaping.

Why Slugs Matter for SEO

The slug is the part of the URL that identifies the page: in example.com/blog/10-cafe-tips, the slug is 10-cafe-tips. Search engines read it as a (small) relevance signal, and humans read it in search results and shared links — /10-cafe-tips earns more clicks than /post?id=4821. Hyphens are the correct word separator: Google treats them as spaces, whereas underscores glue words together.

Slug Best Practices

• Keep it short: 3–5 meaningful words. "10 Essential Tips Every New Café Owner Should Know" works better as cafe-owner-tips than as the full 9-word slug.
• Drop stop words (a, the, and, of) unless removing them changes the meaning.
• Put the keyword in, once — slugs stuffed with repeated keywords look spammy to users and search engines alike.
• Never change a published slug without a 301 redirect; the old URL's links and rankings die otherwise.
• Avoid dates in slugs for evergreen content — best-laptops-2024 looks stale in 2026.

Accents and Edge Cases

Accented characters are transliterated by stripping their diacritics: é, è, ê all become e; ñ becomes n; ü becomes u. Characters with no base-letter decomposition (like ß or CJK characters) are removed rather than guessed at — check the live output and adjust the wording if too much disappears. Everything runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent to a server. If you need to encode a full URL with query parameters instead of building a slug, use the URL encoder — and for CSS-style identifiers, the case converter's kebab-case does the same job for code.