Text to Slug Converter
This free slug converter turns any headline into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug the moment you type it.
How to use
- Type or paste the title you want to turn into a URL slug.
- The slug updates live: lowercase, single hyphens between words, no stray symbols.
- Decide how non-ASCII characters are treated, then copy the slug with one click.
Frequently asked questions
What are the exact slug rules?
Lowercase everything; replace every character that is not an ASCII letter or digit with a hyphen; collapse consecutive hyphens into one; trim hyphens from both ends. "Hello, World!" therefore becomes hello-world, and foo---bar becomes foo-bar.
What happens to Chinese characters?
By default they are removed like any other non-ASCII character, so a title that contains only Chinese reports an explicit error instead of producing an empty slug. With the keep-non-ASCII option enabled, Chinese characters are preserved as-is: 你好 World becomes 你好-world. Browsers percent-encode them automatically in the address bar, and major search engines index such URLs fine — but ASCII-only slugs are the safest choice for sharing and printing.
Do slugs affect SEO?
They help at the margin: a short, hyphen-separated, human-readable slug tells both users and search engines what the page is about before it is opened, and hyphens are the recommended word separator. The slug is a minor ranking signal — content quality matters far more — but a clean slug earns clicks.
Should I keep accented letters like é?
That depends on your audience. With the keep option enabled, café stays café, which is friendlier for French, German or Spanish readers. Without it, those letters are dropped like any other non-ASCII character. Pick one convention and use it consistently across your site.
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About this tool
This free slug converter turns any headline into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug the moment you type it. A good slug is lowercase, uses single hyphens between words, and contains nothing a URL would have to escape — which is exactly what this tool produces: spaces and punctuation become single hyphens, runs of hyphens collapse, leading and trailing hyphens disappear, and "10 Tips for Better Coffee!" becomes 10-tips-for-better-coffee. Non-ASCII characters follow the option you choose: by default Chinese, Japanese, accented letters and other non-ASCII text is dropped (a pure-Chinese title therefore reports an explicit error instead of an empty slug), while the keep-non-ASCII option preserves those characters as-is — 你好-world stays 你好-world — which many modern browsers and search engines handle perfectly. The rule you pick is documented right here so your team can rely on it. Everything is computed locally in your browser: no uploads, no storage, no limits. Type a title below and copy the slug.