URL Slug Generator
Type or paste a title, heading, or sentence to generate a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug. The tool lowercases everything, strips accents and special characters, replaces spaces with hyphens, and removes leading/trailing hyphens. The result is ready to paste into WordPress, Ghost, or any CMS slug field.
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[2 suggestions]About the URL Slug Generator
The URL Slug Generator performs a multi-step normalization pipeline on your input. First, Unicode characters are decomposed via NFD normalization and combining diacritical marks are stripped, so "café" becomes "cafe" and "naïve" becomes "naive". Next, everything is lowercased. Non-alphanumeric characters (symbols, emojis, punctuation) are removed entirely. Spaces and remaining whitespace are replaced with single hyphens, and consecutive hyphens are collapsed to one. Finally, leading and trailing hyphens are trimmed. The result is a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated string ready for any CMS slug field. Google's official guidance recommends hyphens over underscores in URLs because Googlebot treats hyphens as word separators, improving discoverability for multi-word search queries. Bloggers and content teams use this to generate consistent, SEO-optimized URLs without manual cleanup.
Does the generator remove accents and special characters?▾
Yes — accented characters like é, à, and ñ are normalized to their ASCII equivalents (e, a, n). Symbols, emojis, and non-alphanumeric characters are removed entirely.
Why are hyphens used instead of underscores?▾
Google officially recommends hyphens (-) over underscores (_) in URLs because hyphens are treated as word separators. This means "url-slug-generator" is indexed as three separate words.
What happens with consecutive spaces or hyphens?▾
Multiple spaces or hyphens are collapsed into a single hyphen, and any leading or trailing hyphens are stripped. You always get a clean, valid slug.