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URL Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug with the free generator. It lowercases the text, strips special characters and joins words with hyphens. Type an article title and get a short, readable URL you can paste straight into your CMS.

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Your slug

What is URL Slug Generator?

A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page — in toolcubby.com/url-slug-generator, the slug is url-slug-generator. It is the part you control per page, and a good one is short, lowercase and hyphen-separated. Search engines read the slug as one more clue about what the page covers, and people scanning a link in a chat or a search result read it too. A clean slug means no extra characters, no spaces and no messy percent-encoding. This generator takes your heading and turns it into a safe, readable slug: it lowercases everything, strips accents and punctuation, removes emoji and special characters, collapses repeated hyphens and joins words with a single hyphen. It runs instantly as you type and works entirely in the browser. Never change a published slug lightly — doing so breaks existing links unless you set a redirect. Keep slugs short, readable and keyword-rich, and they read well in emails, chats and search results as well as in the address bar.

How to use URL Slug Generator

Type or paste your heading into the title field.
Read the slug in the output field, which updates as you type.
Copy the slug and use it in your URL or CMS.

Example

Input: How to Create a Great URL Slug for SEO Output: how-to-create-a-great-url-slug-for-seo Every word is lowercased, special characters are removed, and spaces become hyphens.

Common use cases

Creating a clean URL for a new blog post or page.
Generating slugs for a batch of existing titles to standardise links.
Building better permalinks for e-commerce products and categories.
Improving the readability and shareability of links in emails and social media.

Pro tips

Aim for three to five words and roughly sixty characters — short slugs read and share better.
Include your primary keyword in the slug; it helps both people and search engines.
Use hyphens, not underscores, since search engines treat glyphs — as word separators.

FAQ

What is a URL slug?

A slug is the part of a URL after the domain, e.g. the “my-post-title” in /blog/my-post-title/. It should be lowercase, hyphenated and readable.

Why use a slug generator?

It turns messy titles into clean, keyword-rich, SEO-friendly URLs by removing special characters and spaces.

Should a slug be lowercase?

Yes. Servers treat different cases as different URLs, so lowercase avoids duplicate-content issues.

Should I remove stop words?

Usually yes. Words like “a”, “the” and “of” add length without much SEO value.

How long should a slug be?

Aim for three to five words and roughly sixty characters.

Can I change a slug after publishing?

Avoid it. Changing a published slug breaks existing links unless you set up a redirect.

Why hyphens instead of underscores?

Search engines treat hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners.

Is it private?

Yes. It runs entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded.