Slug Generator

A URL slug is the part of a web address that comes after the domain name and identifies a specific page in a human-readable way. For example, in 'example.com/my-blog-post', 'my-blog-post' is the slug. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens, and avoid special characters.

Search engines use URL slugs as a ranking signal. Descriptive, keyword-rich slugs help search engines understand page content and improve click-through rates in search results. Clean slugs also look more trustworthy to users.

Transliteration converts accented and special characters into their closest ASCII equivalents. For example, 'café résumé' becomes 'cafe-resume'. This ensures your slugs are compatible with all browsers and systems without encoding issues.

Hyphens (-) are the most widely recommended separator for URL slugs. Google treats hyphens as word separators, making them ideal for SEO. Underscores (_) are sometimes used for file names, and dots (.) for specific conventions, but hyphens are the standard.

While there's no strict technical limit, keeping slugs under 60–80 characters is a best practice. Shorter slugs are easier to read, share, and remember. Use the max length option to automatically truncate at a word boundary.