About Text to Slug Converter
A URL slug is the part of a web address that identifies a page in a human-readable and SEO-friendly format. This tool converts any text into a clean slug by lowercasing letters, replacing spaces with hyphens, removing special characters, and stripping diacritical marks from accented characters.
How to Use
- Type or paste your title, heading, or any text into the input field.
- The slug is generated live as you type.
- Click Copy Slug to copy the result to your clipboard.
SEO Best Practices for URLs
Search engines prefer short, descriptive URLs with words separated by hyphens. Avoid underscores, special characters, and excessive length. A good slug should be 3 to 5 words, clearly describing the page content. This tool handles all the formatting rules for you automatically.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
A URL slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page, like 'my-blog-post' in 'example.com/my-blog-post'.
Does it handle accented characters?
Yes. Accented characters like e with acute, u with umlaut, and n with tilde are converted to their plain ASCII equivalents.
Are uppercase letters allowed in slugs?
While technically allowed, best practice is to use lowercase only. This tool automatically converts everything to lowercase.
What characters are removed?
All special characters except letters, numbers, and hyphens are removed. Spaces and underscores are replaced with hyphens.
How long should a slug be?
Ideally, a URL slug should be 3 to 5 words and under 60 characters. Shorter slugs are easier to read and share.