URL Slug Generator
Convert titles into clean, SEO-friendly URL slugs — lowercase, accents transliterated, special characters removed. Supports bulk lines.
About the URL Slug Generator
This free slug generator turns any title or phrase into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug as you type. "How to Bake Perfect Bread!" becomes how-to-bake-perfect-bread — lowercase, punctuation stripped, spaces replaced with hyphens. Accented characters are transliterated automatically, so "Café Menü" produces cafe-menu instead of broken symbols.
Choose between hyphens and underscores as the word separator. Hyphens are the recommendation from Google, which treats them as word separators, while underscores remain common in some legacy systems and file-naming conventions. Repeated separators are collapsed and stray ones trimmed from the ends, so the output is always tidy.
It also works in bulk: paste multiple titles, one per line, and get one slug per line — ideal for migrating a blog, planning a site structure or generating slugs for a whole content calendar at once.
How to Use the URL Slug Generator
- 1Type or paste a title — or several titles, one per line.
- 2Choose hyphen or underscore as the word separator.
- 3The slug appears instantly, cleaned and lowercased.
- 4Click Copy and paste it into your CMS or router.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — in example.com/blog/how-to-bake-bread, the slug is how-to-bake-bread. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, contain the page's main keywords and avoid dates, stop words and special characters, making URLs easier to read, share and rank.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in URL slugs?
Use hyphens. Google has stated for years that it treats hyphens as word separators but joins words connected by underscores — so how-to-bake reads as three words while how_to_bake can be treated as one token. Hyphens are also easier to see in underlined links. Underscores mainly persist in legacy systems and code-style naming.
How does the generator handle accented and special characters?
Accented letters are transliterated to their ASCII equivalents — é becomes e, ü becomes u, ñ becomes n — using Unicode decomposition plus a map for special letters like ß (ss), æ (ae) and ø (o). Everything that is not a letter or digit, including punctuation, symbols and emoji, is converted to the separator and collapsed.
Can I convert many titles to slugs at once?
Yes. Paste any number of titles into the box with one per line, and the output shows one slug per line in the same order. This bulk mode is a big time-saver when migrating posts to a new CMS, generating redirects, or preparing slugs for an editorial calendar in a spreadsheet.
Do keywords in the slug help SEO?
Modestly, yes. A slug is a small ranking signal and, more importantly, appears in search results where readable, relevant words improve click-through. Keep slugs short — three to six meaningful words — put the primary keyword in, and drop filler like "a", "the" and "of". Never change published slugs without a 301 redirect.