What Is a URL Slug?

A URL slug is the part of a web address that identifies a specific page in a human-readable way. In the URL https://example.com/blog/how-to-learn-python, the slug ishow-to-learn-python. Slugs replace the page title in the URL, converting spaces to hyphens and removing special characters to create a clean, shareable address that both humans and search engines can easily read and understand.

Why SEO-Friendly Slugs Matter

Google gives some weight to keywords in URLs. A slug like how-to-make-pastatells Google immediately what the page is about before it even reads the content. More importantly, descriptive URLs are more likely to be clicked in search results — users can read the URL in search snippets and immediately understand what they will find on the page.

• Keep slugs short — 3 to 5 words is ideal.
• Include the primary keyword naturally.
• Use hyphens, not underscores — Google treats hyphens as word separators.
• Use all lowercase to avoid duplicate content from case differences.
• Remove stop words (a, the, and, or) if they do not add meaning.
• Never change a published slug without setting up a 301 redirect.

What This Generator Does to Your Text

Paste any title or phrase and the generator converts it to a clean slug by converting to lowercase, replacing spaces with hyphens, removing special characters and punctuation, normalizing accented characters (é → e, ñ → n), and collapsing multiple hyphens into one. The result is a URL-safe string ready to use as a page path, file name, or database ID.