Text to Slug
Convert text, titles, or phrases into clean URL slugs with hyphens. Perfect for SEO-friendly URLs.
📋 How to Use
- Type or paste your text (title, phrase, or heading) into the input field.
- The slug is generated instantly as you type.
- Choose your separator (hyphen or underscore) and optional settings.
- Review the generated slug in the output field.
- Click Copy to copy the slug and use it in your CMS, code, or URL structure.
About This Tool
Text to Slug Converter — Generate SEO-Friendly URL Slugs
A URL slug is the human-readable, SEO-friendly portion of a web address. Clean slugs improve search engine rankings, make URLs shareable and memorable, and provide a better user experience. Our Text to Slug converter transforms any text into a properly formatted URL slug following web best practices.
What Is a URL Slug?
A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a readable format. For example:
- Full URL:
https://example.com/blog/how-to-make-coffee - Slug:
how-to-make-coffee
Slugs use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens instead of spaces. They exclude special characters, accents, and punctuation that would create invalid or ugly URLs.
Why Use Clean URL Slugs?
- SEO benefits: Search engines read slugs to understand page content. Descriptive slugs with target keywords improve search rankings.
- Sharability: Clean slugs are easy to type, remember, and share in conversation or print without encoding issues.
- User experience: Readable URLs help visitors understand where a link leads before clicking.
- Technical compatibility: Properly formatted slugs prevent URL encoding issues across different browsers and systems.
Slug Conversion Features
- Lowercase conversion: All letters are converted to lowercase.
- Space replacement: Spaces (and multiple spaces) are replaced with single hyphens.
- Special character removal: Punctuation, symbols, and non-alphanumeric characters are removed.
- Accent normalization: Accented characters (é → e, ü → u, ñ → n) are converted to their ASCII equivalents.
- Multiple hyphen collapse: Consecutive hyphens are collapsed into a single hyphen.
- Leading/trailing hyphen removal: Hyphens at the start or end of the slug are removed.
- Separator choice: Choose between hyphens (recommended for SEO) or underscores as word separators.
- Stop word removal: Optionally remove common words (a, an, the, is, of) for shorter, punchier slugs.
Examples
| Input | Output Slug |
|---|---|
| "10 Best Coffee Recipes!" | 10-best-coffee-recipes |
| "Héros & Légendes" | heros-legendes |
| "How to: Build a Website" | how-to-build-a-website |
Generate perfect URL slugs now — free and instant.