Text to Slug: Create URL-Friendly Slugs from Any Text

A slug is the URL-friendly version of a title or name. It’s the part of a URL that identifies a page in a human-readable way. Good slugs improve SEO, user experience, and link sharing.

What Makes a Good Slug?

Title: "10 Tips for Better CSS — A Developer's Guide!"
Slug:  10-tips-for-better-css-a-developers-guide

URL:   https://example.com/blog/10-tips-for-better-css-a-developers-guide

A good slug:

• Uses only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens
• Removes special characters and punctuation
• Converts spaces to hyphens
• Is readable and descriptive
• Avoids unnecessary words

How the Conversion Works

1. Lowercase — convert everything to lowercase
2. Transliterate — convert accented characters (é → e, ñ → n, ü → u)
3. Remove — strip special characters, punctuation, and symbols
4. Separate — replace spaces with hyphens (or your chosen separator)
5. Clean — remove consecutive separators and trim edges

Examples

Input	Slug
Hello World!	hello-world
Café Résumé	cafe-resume
10 Tips & Tricks	10-tips-tricks
What’s New in 2024?	whats-new-in-2024
C++ Programming Guide	c-programming-guide

How to Use Our Slug Generator

1. Type or paste text in the input field
2. View the slug generated instantly
3. Choose separator: hyphen (-), underscore (_), or dot (.)
4. Set max length to limit slug length (with word-boundary breaking)
5. Toggle transliteration for accented characters
6. Preview the complete URL with your slug

SEO Tips for Slugs

• Keep slugs under 60 characters
• Include your target keyword
• Remove stop words (a, the, is, and) when they don’t add meaning
• Use hyphens, not underscores (Google treats hyphens as word separators)
• Don’t change slugs after publishing — it breaks existing links

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