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Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug instantly.
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Generated slug
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The slug updates live as you type.
What is the Slug Generator?
A slug is the readable part of a URL, like “best-coffee-shops-lahore” in example.com/best-coffee-shops-lahore. This free online tool turns any page title into a clean, SEO-friendly slug instantly: it lowercases the text, strips accents and special characters, replaces spaces with hyphens or underscores, and trims the result to your chosen maximum length. The slug updates live as you type.
How to use it
- Type or paste your page title into the input.
- Choose a hyphen or underscore separator (hyphens are the SEO standard).
- Set a max length — 60 characters is a sensible default — and toggle lowercase.
- Copy the generated slug with one click and paste it into your CMS.
Key features
- Live slug generation with zero delay.
- Hyphen or underscore separators.
- Optional forced lowercase for consistent URLs.
- Max-length trimming that never leaves a dangling separator.
- Accent stripping: “café” becomes “cafe”, “naïve” becomes “naive”.
Real-world use cases
Bloggers create clean post URLs in WordPress and other CMS platforms. E-commerce managers generate product page slugs from product names. Developers build URL helpers and need quick test outputs. SEOs rewrite ugly URLs with parameters into readable ones.
Practical tips
- Use hyphens, not underscores — Google treats hyphens as word separators.
- Keep slugs short and keyword-rich; remove filler words like “and”, “the”, and “of”.
- Never change a slug after a page is indexed without setting up a redirect.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
The slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, such as “best-coffee-shops” in example.com/best-coffee-shops. Good slugs are short, lowercase, and keyword-rich.
Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Search engines treat hyphens as word separators but join words around underscores, so “coffee-shops” ranks better than “coffee_shops”.
How long should a slug be?
Aim for under 60 characters and 3 to 5 words. Short slugs are easier to read, share, and remember.
What happens to special characters and accents?
They are stripped or converted: accents are removed (“café” becomes “cafe”) and symbols are replaced with your chosen separator or dropped.
Can I use uppercase letters in a slug?
You can, but lowercase is the convention — URLs are case-sensitive on many servers, and mixed case leads to duplicate-content issues.