URL Slug Generator

A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page — the piece after the last slash. In example.com/blog/10-tips-for-better-seo, the slug is 10-tips-for-better-seo. Good slugs contain only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, so they work in every browser, email client, and social platform without percent-encoding.

Slugs matter for SEO and usability. Google explicitly recommends simple, descriptive words in URLs and treats hyphens as word separators (underscores are treated as word joiners, so red_car reads as one word "redcar"). Descriptive slugs also become the visible link text when a URL is pasted without anchor text, which improves click-through.

Best practice: keep slugs to roughly 3–5 words and under about 60 characters, drop filler stop words when they add no meaning ("the", "a", "and"), and convert accented characters to their ASCII equivalents (é → e, ü → u, ß → ss) so the URL never gets mangled into percent-escapes like %C3%A9 when shared.