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How to use
01
Paste the title into the text box
Type or paste the headline you want converted. The slug rebuilds on every keystroke, so you can watch punctuation vanish and spaces turn into separators while you edit.
02
Choose the separator and case
The Separator field takes a single character, hyphen by default, underscore or dot if you insist. The Lowercase checkbox is on by default and should usually stay that way.
03
Copy the slug into your CMS
Grab the result with the copy button and drop it into the permalink field. Strict mode has already removed anything a URL would otherwise need to percent encode.
Why Slug Generator
- URL-safe slugs from any text.
- Custom separator (-, _, .).
- Strict mode strips all special chars and unicode.
Common questions
Why do URL slugs use hyphens instead of underscores?
Google treats a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so blue-widgets is read as two words while blue_widgets can be read as one token. Hyphens have been the documented recommendation for years, which is why the tool defaults to them.
Should a slug always be lowercase?
Yes. URL paths are case sensitive on most servers, so /My-Post and /my-post can be two different resources and therefore duplicate content. Keeping the Lowercase box ticked removes that whole class of problem before it starts.
How long should an SEO slug be?
Three to five meaningful words covers almost every page. Shorter slugs are easier to read in search results and survive retitling better; a slug that mirrors a whole twelve word headline looks dated the moment you rewrite the title.
What happens to accented characters and symbols in the slug output?
Strict mode transliterates what it can and drops the rest. An e with an accent becomes a plain e, an ampersand becomes the word and, and emoji or stray punctuation simply disappear. The result contains only letters, numbers, and your separator.
Do stop words like a, the, and of belong in a slug?
Cut them when the phrase still reads naturally without them. how-to-fix-404-errors keeps its stop word because how-fix-404-errors reads worse, while the-best-guide-to-espresso trims cleanly to best-espresso-guide. Readability wins over any rigid rule.
Can I use a dot or underscore as the slug separator?
The Separator field accepts any single character, so both work if a platform demands them. Dots can confuse systems that sniff file extensions, though, and underscores lose the word separation benefit, so hyphens remain the sensible default for web paths.
What should I do after changing a published page's slug?
Set a 301 redirect from the old path to the new one before the change goes live, then update internal links so nothing depends on the redirect. Skip that step and every existing backlink, bookmark, and search result for the page breaks at once.