Slug Generator
Turn any headline or product name into a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated URL slug. It strips punctuation, spaces, and accents so the result is safe to use in a permalink, a file name, or a routing path.
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What makes a good slug
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL after the domain, like the 'best-running-shoes' in /blog/best-running-shoes. Search engines read it, people copy it into messages, and your CMS uses it as a unique key. A good slug is short, all lowercase, uses hyphens rather than underscores or spaces, and contains only ASCII letters, numbers, and hyphens.
The common mistakes are leaving in capital letters (which can create duplicate URLs on case-sensitive servers), using spaces (which become ugly %20 codes), and keeping stop words and punctuation that add length without meaning.
Practical rules this tool applies
The generator lowercases everything, replaces spaces and repeated separators with a single hyphen, removes characters that are not URL-safe, and trims hyphens from the ends.
- Keep slugs under about 60 characters so they are not truncated in search results.
- Drop filler words like 'a', 'the', and 'and' unless they change meaning.
- Decide on a slug before you publish; changing it later breaks existing links unless you set up a redirect.
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FAQs
Why hyphens instead of underscores?▼
Google treats a hyphen as a word separator but historically treated an underscore as a join, so 'best_shoes' could be read as one word. Hyphens are the safe, conventional choice for URLs.
Does the slug affect SEO?▼
It is a small but real signal. A descriptive slug with relevant words helps both search engines and people understand the page before they click. It will not outrank good content, but a clean slug never hurts.
How are accented characters handled?▼
Letters like é or ü are converted to their closest ASCII equivalent (e, u) so the slug stays universally compatible. Characters with no equivalent are removed.
Can I change a slug after publishing?▼
You can, but any existing link to the old slug will break. If you must change it, add a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one so traffic and search ranking carry over.
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