What is a URL slug?
A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, for example secure-your-website in example.com/blog/secure-your-website. Clean slugs help readers and search engines understand what a page is about, which is good for SEO and for sharing links.
Example
The title 10 Best Ways to Secure Your Website! becomes 10-best-ways-to-secure-your-website. Capitals are lowered, spaces become hyphens, and the exclamation mark is removed.
Good slug practices
- Keep slugs short and descriptive — include your main keyword.
- Use hyphens, not underscores, as Google treats hyphens as word separators.
- Avoid stop words only if the slug stays clear; readability matters more.
- Never change a published slug without setting up a redirect, or you will break existing links.
How it works
The generator normalizes accented letters (so café becomes cafe), removes anything that isn’t a letter, number, space or separator, collapses multiple separators, and trims the ends.
Limitations
- Non-Latin scripts (such as Arabic or Chinese) are removed because they cannot be transliterated reliably in the browser. For those, write the slug manually.
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