Text-to-Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug — lowercase, hyphenated and safe. One at a time, or in bulk.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded. Accented Latin text is reduced to base letters (Café → cafe); other symbols are removed. Non-Latin scripts such as Arabic are dropped rather than transliterated — write those slugs manually for best results.
What makes a good URL slug
Keep it short and descriptive, use lowercase letters, separate words with hyphens, and include the main keyword for the page. Avoid stop words where they add nothing, drop dates unless they matter, and never use spaces or special characters. A clean slug like marketing-tips-dubai is easier to read, share, and rank than a long one full of filler words or a string of numbers and symbols.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page \u2014 the bit after the domain, like \u201csummer-marketing-tips\u201d in example.com/summer-marketing-tips. A good slug is lowercase, uses hyphens between words, contains only safe characters, and describes the page clearly, which helps both readers and search engines understand what the page is about.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but reads underscores as joining words together, so \u201cred_shoes\u201d can be interpreted as one word while \u201cred-shoes\u201d is correctly read as two. For SEO-friendly URLs, hyphens are the standard choice \u2014 this tool defaults to them but lets you switch to underscores if a system requires it.
Why are accented and special characters removed?
Accents and symbols can break or look messy in URLs and are often encoded into hard-to-read percent codes. This tool strips accents down to their base letter (so \u201cCaf\u00e9\u201d becomes \u201ccafe\u201d) and removes other symbols entirely, leaving only letters, numbers and your chosen separator. The result is a clean, universally safe slug that works everywhere.
Does it work with Arabic titles?
Latin-based accented text is handled automatically, but non-Latin scripts such as Arabic are dropped rather than transliterated, because there is no single correct way to romanise Arabic and an automated guess is often wrong. For an Arabic title, it is usually better to write the English slug yourself \u2014 either translate the key phrase or use the English version of the name \u2014 rather than rely on automatic conversion.
What does removing stop words do?
Turning on stop-word removal strips common filler words like \u201ca\u201d, \u201cthe\u201d, \u201cand\u201d, \u201cof\u201d and \u201cin\u201d from the slug, so \u201cthe-best-guide-to-marketing-in-dubai\u201d becomes \u201cbest-guide-marketing-dubai\u201d. This makes URLs shorter and more keyword-focused, though it is optional \u2014 sometimes keeping the natural phrasing reads better, so use whichever suits the page.