🔗 Text to Slug
Convert any title, heading or phrase into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug instantly. Handles accents, special characters and spaces automatically. Free, private, no signup.
About URL Slug Generator
A URL slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, contain no special characters and are concise. This tool converts any text into a properly formatted slug following SEO best practices.
What This Tool Does
- Converts text to lowercase (e.g. "Hello World" → "hello-world")
- Replaces spaces with hyphens or underscores
- Removes special characters and symbols
- Converts accented letters to plain equivalents (é → e, ñ → n)
- Collapses multiple hyphens into one
- Optionally removes common stop words like "the", "a", "and", "in"
Slug Best Practices for SEO
- Keep slugs short — under 5 words when possible
- Include your primary keyword in the slug
- Use hyphens not underscores — Google treats them differently
- Avoid dates in slugs unless the content is time-specific
- Never use uppercase letters or special characters
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
+A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable way. For example, in "myquicktool.com/text-tools/text-to-slug", the slug is "text-to-slug". Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words and contain no special characters.
Why use hyphens instead of underscores in slugs?
+Google treats hyphens as word separators but underscores as connecting characters. So "text-to-slug" is read as three separate words while "text_to_slug" is read as one word. Hyphens are universally recommended for SEO-friendly URLs.
What are stop words?
+Stop words are common words like "the", "a", "and", "in", "of", "to" that add little SEO value to a URL. Removing them makes slugs shorter and cleaner. For example "the-best-tools-for-developers" becomes "best-tools-developers".