Slug Generator

A slug is the descriptive, human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page — for example 'my-first-post' in example.com/blog/my-first-post. Good slugs are short, lowercase and use hyphens between words.

Use hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but joins words connected by underscores, so 'blue-widgets' is read as two words while 'blue_widgets' may be read as one. Hyphens are the long-standing SEO recommendation.

Accented letters are normalized with Unicode NFD decomposition and the diacritic marks are stripped, so é becomes e and ü becomes u. Symbols and punctuation that are not valid in slugs are removed entirely.

Aim for three to five meaningful words. Short slugs are easier to read, share and rank; drop filler words like 'a', 'the' and 'of' when they do not change the meaning of the page title.

Technically yes, but you should not. URLs are case-sensitive on most servers, so 'My-Post' and 'my-post' can be different pages, causing duplicate-content issues. Lowercase everything — this tool does it automatically.

Paste your title into this free online slug maker and it creates the slug as you type — lowercasing, stripping accents and joining words with a hyphen or underscore. Click copy and paste the finished slug straight into your CMS or code.