URL Slug Generator - SEO-Friendly URLs
Convert any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug for blog posts, pages, and SEO. Handles special characters and Unicode.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Slug Generator work?
The tool lowercases the input, normalizes Unicode characters to their ASCII equivalents using String.normalize("NFD") with a diacritical-mark-stripping regex, replaces spaces and non-alphanumeric characters with hyphens, collapses consecutive hyphens into one, and trims leading/trailing hyphens. The result is a clean, URL-safe string.
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the URL-friendly version of a title or heading. For example, "My Blog Post Title!" becomes "my-blog-post-title". Slugs use only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
Why are slugs important for SEO?
Search engines use the URL path as a ranking signal. Clean, readable slugs that contain relevant keywords perform better than auto-generated IDs or encoded character strings.
Does it handle special characters and accents?
Yes. Accented characters are transliterated to ASCII equivalents (e.g., "cafe" from "cafe"), and special characters like &, @, and # are removed to produce a clean, valid URL path.