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Options

Lowercase Remove accents

Separator

Hyphen (-) Underscore (_)

SEO tip

Keep slugs under 60 chars. Use hyphens — Google treats them as word separators. Remove stop words (a, the, of) to shorten.

Input text Generated slug

How it works

1Type or paste any text — title, product name, heading
2Choose options: lowercase, accent removal, separator
3Slug is generated live as you type — no button needed
4Click Copy slug and paste into your CMS, URL field, or code

Examples

My Post Title → my-post-title

Jak zoptymalizować? → jak-zoptymalizowac

Product #1 (New!) → product-1-new

What is a URL Slug?

A URL slug is the final, identifying segment of a web address — in cleantextfree.com/slug-generator, the slug is slug-generator. It's distinct from the full path, which includes every directory separated by slashes (/blog/2024/my-post). A well-formed slug is lowercase, uses hyphens between words, drops spaces, special characters, and accents, and stays under roughly 60 characters. Most CMS platforms auto-generate one from the page title, but those defaults are often bloated with stop words or broken by punctuation — which is exactly what this tool fixes before you publish.

How to Use the Slug Generator — Step by Step

Paste or type your text into the input field above — a blog title, product name, or heading. The slug updates live as you type, no button needed.
Set the toggles: Lowercase forces every character down (keep this on); Remove accents transliterates é → e, ą → a, ü → u; the separator radio switches between a Hyphen (-) for SEO-facing URLs and an Underscore (_) for code identifiers and filenames.
Copy the slug with the "Copy slug" button and drop it into WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, Webflow, or any URL field.

Slug Examples

Title / Input Text	Generated Slug	Why
10 Best SEO Tools for 2024	10-best-seo-tools-for-2024	Spaces replaced with hyphens, all lowercase — ready for WordPress or Ghost
Jak zoptymalizować stronę pod SEO?	jak-zoptymalizowac-strone-pod-seo	Polish characters (ó→o, ę→e, ą→a) transliterated; question mark removed
🚀 Launch Your Product Fast! #startup	launch-your-product-fast-startup	Emoji and special characters stripped; hashtag removed cleanly
The Complete Guide to Building a High-Converting E-Commerce Product Page That Ranks	the-complete-guide-to-building-a-high-converting-e-commerce-product-page-that-ranks	Valid slug but 84 chars — consider shortening to "high-converting-ecommerce-product-page" for SEO best practice
Men's Slim-Fit Chino Trousers — Navy Blue	mens-slim-fit-chino-trousers-navy-blue	Apostrophe removed, em dash replaced — clean Shopify/WooCommerce product URL

SEO Best Practices for URL Slugs

A well-optimized slug can improve click-through rates in search results and help search engines understand page content. Here's what matters:

Use hyphens, not underscores. Google treats hyphens as word separators — "my-blog-post" is read as three words. Underscores join words — "my_blog_post" is treated as one word. Hyphens win for SEO every time.
Keep it under 60 characters. Google truncates long URLs in search results. A slug under 60 characters fits comfortably and remains readable.
Include your primary keyword. If your target keyword is "seo slug generator," your slug should contain that phrase or a close variant — not a generic string of random words.
Remove stop words from long titles. Words like "a," "the," "and," "of," "for" rarely add SEO value in slugs. "best-seo-tools-2024" is often better than "the-best-seo-tools-for-2024."
Avoid dates unless necessary. Slugs like "/2019/best-laptops" date your content. "/best-laptops" stays evergreen and is easier to update without changing the URL.
Don't change slugs after publishing unless you set up a 301 redirect. Every backlink pointing to your old URL becomes a broken link that leaks SEO value.
Multilingual sites: Use separate slugs per language — don't mix languages in one slug. "comment-optimiser-une-page" for French, "how-to-optimize-a-page" for English.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between a slug and the full URL?

The full URL is the entire address (https://site.com/blog/my-first-post); the slug is only the final identifying segment (my-first-post). The protocol, domain, and any directory path sit in front of it. When this tool generates a slug, it's producing that last piece — you still prepend your own domain and folder structure.

Which characters are allowed in a slug?

Lowercase letters, digits 0–9, and the hyphen are the safe set used across every browser and CMS. This generator strips everything else: spaces become your chosen separator, punctuation and emoji are removed, and accented letters are folded to plain ASCII. The result needs no percent-encoding, so it stays readable in the address bar and in shared links.

How does it transliterate diacritics like ą, é, or ü?

With "Remove accents" on, each accented character maps to its closest ASCII letter rather than being deleted — so "Łódź" becomes lodz, not d. The built-in map covers Polish (ą→a, ę→e, ś→s, ź/ż→z, ó→o, ć→c, ń→n, ł→l), plus German ü→u and ß→ss, French é→e, Spanish ñ→n, Nordic ø→o and æ→ae, and more.

Hyphen or underscore — which separator should I pick?

For public web URLs, choose the hyphen: search engines split my-blog-post into three words, while my_blog_post is read as one. The underscore option exists for cases where you're generating a code identifier, file name, or database key rather than an SEO-facing URL.