URL Slug Generator
Paste a headline and get a lowercase, ASCII-only slug ready to use as a permalink. Accented letters and Turkish characters such as ı, ğ and ş are transliterated rather than dropped.
Slug
Enter a value to see the result.
About this tool
A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page. Short, descriptive, hyphen-separated slugs are easier for people to read and share, and they give search engines an extra signal about the page topic.
Google treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as joiners, so `url-slug-generator` is read as three words while `url_slug_generator` may be read as one. Hyphens are the safer default for SEO.
Frequently asked questions
- Should a slug use hyphens or underscores?
- Hyphens. Google explicitly recommends them as word separators, while underscores can cause words to be treated as a single token.
- How long should a slug be?
- Short enough to read at a glance — roughly three to six meaningful words. Drop filler words like 'the', 'a' and 'of'.
- Are non-English characters allowed in URLs?
- Technically yes via percent encoding, but the encoded form is unreadable when shared. Transliterating to ASCII keeps the link clean.
- Can I change a slug after publishing?
- You can, but it breaks existing links and resets accumulated ranking signals. Always add a 301 redirect from the old slug to the new one.
- Does it handle Turkish characters correctly?
- Yes. ı, İ, ğ, ş, ç, ö and ü are mapped to their closest ASCII equivalents instead of being stripped.