Slug Generator

A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in human-readable form, like the "my-blog-post-title" in example.com/blog/my-blog-post-title. Search engines and browsers technically accept a much wider range of characters in a URL, but a good slug sticks to a narrow, predictable set: lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, with no spaces, punctuation, or accented characters. Spaces would have to be percent-encoded (turning into %20 or a literal +), mixed case creates inconsistency since some servers treat URLs as case-sensitive, and special characters can be misinterpreted by routing logic or copy-pasted incorrectly.

This tool converts any string into that format through a specific sequence: lowercasing everything, Unicode-normalizing accented characters into their base letter plus a separate accent mark (NFD normalization), stripping those accent marks so "café" becomes "cafe" instead of dropping the e entirely, replacing every run of non-alphanumeric characters with a single hyphen, and trimming any leading or trailing hyphens left over.

Clean slugs matter for SEO because search engines display and index the URL itself, and a descriptive, readable slug (like /best-hiking-trails-oregon rather than /post?id=48291) gives both users and crawlers a clearer signal about the page's content.

A slug is the readable last part of a URL. Good slugs use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, with no spaces, punctuation or accents, and describe the page in a few words.

Once a page is published, changing its slug breaks existing links and loses search ranking unless you add a redirect. Pick a stable slug that will not need to change when the title is edited.