🐌 URL Slug Generator

What This Tool Does

This tool turns a title or phrase into a clean URL slug — the readable part of a web address that identifies a page. Type something like “My First Blog Post!” and it produces “my-first-blog-post,” lowercase, with spaces turned into hyphens and special characters removed. It gives you tidy, web-safe slugs without the manual work of cleaning up the text yourself.

A good slug matters more than it might seem. It appears in the URL, gets shared and linked, and is one of the small signals that tells both people and search engines what a page is about. Generating slugs consistently keeps your URLs clean and professional across an entire site, which is exactly what you want as your content grows.

What Makes a Good Slug

A strong slug is short, lowercase, and readable, using hyphens to separate words. It strips out anything that does not belong in a URL — capital letters, spaces, punctuation, and special characters — because those either get encoded into ugly symbols or cause problems. “my-first-blog-post” is clean and clear; the same title left as-is would become a messy string of percent-encoded characters in the address bar.

The best slugs are also concise and meaningful. Rather than turning a long title into an equally long slug, it is good practice to trim it to the key words — a slug like “best-running-shoes” is better than one that includes every word of a sentence-long title. Hyphens, not underscores, are the standard separator that search engines treat as word breaks. This generator handles the cleanup automatically, and you can trim the result to the essential words.

Quick Tips

• Keep slugs short and focused on the key words rather than including an entire title.
• Use hyphens, not underscores, since search engines treat hyphens as word separators.
• Decide on a slug before publishing and sharing, since changing it later breaks existing links.
• Lowercase, hyphenated, and free of special characters is the clean, reliable standard.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a URL slug?

It is the readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page, like “my-first-post” in example.com/my-first-post. A good slug is lowercase, hyphenated, and describes the page's content.

Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?

Hyphens. Search engines treat hyphens as word separators but do not always treat underscores the same way, so hyphens are the standard and recommended choice for slugs.

Can I change a slug after publishing?

You can, but changing it breaks any existing links to the page unless you set up a redirect. It is best to choose a good slug before publishing and sharing the page.

How long should a slug be?

Short and focused. Trim it to the key words rather than including an entire title — a concise, descriptive slug is cleaner and more effective than a long one.