Slug Generator
Turn a title or phrase into a clean URL-safe slug — lowercase, hyphenated, and stripped of anything a URL shouldn't have.
What gets cleaned up
The generator lowercases the text, strips accents down to their base letters, removes punctuation and symbols that aren't safe in a URL, and collapses spaces into your chosen separator. The result is a slug that matches what most content-management systems and static site generators expect for page and post URLs.
Common uses
- Turning a blog post title into its URL path
- Cleaning up a product name for an e-commerce URL
- Generating consistent, readable file or folder names from titles
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — for example, in smartwebtools.online/tools/slug-generator.html, "slug-generator" is the slug. Good slugs are short, lowercase, and hyphen-separated.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?
Hyphens are the standard recommendation for SEO — search engines treat hyphens as word separators but generally don't split underscore-joined words the same way, so "my-post-title" is preferred over "my_post_title".
Why are accented characters removed from my slug?
URLs are safest and most compatible using only standard ASCII characters, so accented letters (like é or ñ) are converted to their closest plain-letter equivalent (e to e) rather than left as special characters that some systems handle inconsistently.
Does a good slug help SEO?
A short, descriptive, keyword-relevant slug can make a small positive difference for SEO and helps both search engines and readers understand what a page is about at a glance — though it's one of many minor ranking factors, not a major one on its own.