A URL slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page. For example, in "example.com/blog/my-first-post", the slug is "my-first-post". Good slugs are short, descriptive, and use hyphens to separate words.

Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?

Always use hyphens (-). Google treats hyphens as word separators, making it easier to understand your URL. Underscores (_) are treated as word joiners, so "my_page" is read as one word "mypage" by Google.

What characters should be removed from slugs?

Remove all special characters except hyphens: no spaces (replace with -), no punctuation, no accented characters (convert to ASCII equivalents), no uppercase letters. Keep only a-z, 0-9, and hyphens.

How long should a URL slug be?

Keep slugs under 60 characters for best SEO. Include your primary keyword and remove unnecessary words. Shorter slugs are easier to share and remember.

Should I remove stop words from slugs?

It depends. For SEO, removing common stop words (the, a, and, or, in, of) shortens the URL and emphasizes keywords. However, if the stop word is part of a brand name or proper noun, keep it.

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Text to Slug

Convert any text into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug instantly.

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How to Use Text to Slug

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Type or paste your text (title, heading, phrase) into the input.
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The slug is generated instantly below.
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Toggle options like "Remove stop words" or "Lowercase only" to customize.
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Click "Copy" to copy the slug to your clipboard.
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Use the slug in your CMS, blog, or web application.

About Text to Slug

A URL slug is the part of a web address that identifies a specific page in a human-readable format. For example, the slug for this page is "text-to-slug". Clean, descriptive slugs are a crucial on-page SEO factor — they help search engines understand the page topic and improve click-through rates in search results.

Our Text to Slug converter automatically handles all the transformations needed: converts to lowercase, replaces spaces with hyphens, removes special characters and accents, removes stop words (optional), and ensures no double hyphens or leading/trailing hyphens remain.

This tool is essential for bloggers, SEO professionals, developers building CMS systems, and anyone creating web pages who wants clean, readable URLs. WordPress, Shopify, and other CMS platforms use this exact logic for their URL generation.