Last updated: April 2026
The Text to Slug Converter turns any title, heading, or text into a clean, URL-friendly slug. It removes special characters, converts spaces to hyphens, strips accented characters, and lowercases everything to produce slugs that work perfectly in web addresses. Choose between hyphens, underscores, or dots as your separator. The tool shows you a live URL preview, the character count, and an SEO length recommendation so you know if your slug is the right size for search engines. Bloggers, web developers, and content managers use this daily when creating new pages, posts, or product URLs. Having clean, readable slugs is a key part of technical SEO because search engines and users both prefer short, descriptive URLs. The tool works instantly as you type.
Type or paste a title, heading, or any text you want to convert into a URL slug. The conversion happens in real time as you type.
Select Hyphen (-), Underscore (_), or Dot (.) as the separator between words. Hyphens are the most common and recommended by Google for URL slugs.
Review the character count and SEO recommendation shown below the slug. Slugs under 60 characters are ideal for search engine optimization and readability.
Click the Copy Slug button to grab the generated slug. You can also reference the URL preview to see exactly how it will look in a complete web address.
Text to Slug Converter is the fastest way to create URL-friendly slugs online. Key advantages include multiple separator options, SEO length checking, live URL preview, and automatic handling of special characters.
A URL slug is the part of a web address that comes after the domain name and identifies a specific page. For example, in example.com/my-blog-post, the slug is my-blog-post. Good slugs are short, descriptive, lowercase, and use hyphens to separate words. They help both users and search engines understand what the page is about.
Google treats hyphens as word separators but treats underscores as word joiners. So my-blog-post is read as three separate words (my, blog, post), while my_blog_post might be read as one compound word. Google's own John Mueller has confirmed that hyphens are the recommended separator for URLs.
Keep your URL slugs under 60 characters for best SEO results. Shorter slugs are easier to read, share, and remember. They also display fully in search results without being truncated. Remove stop words like a, the, and, is, and of to keep slugs concise while retaining meaning.
Yes. The converter strips diacritical marks from accented characters using Unicode normalization. Characters like e with an accent, u with an umlaut, and n with a tilde are converted to their plain ASCII equivalents (e, u, n). This ensures your slugs work in all browsers and web servers without encoding issues.
Absolutely. The same rules that make good URL slugs also make good file names. Using lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens produces file names that work across all operating systems without issues from special characters or spaces.