Quick Answer
What is a URL slug?
// Answer
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like best-seo-tips in example.com/blog/best-seo-tips. To slugify text, convert it to lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, remove special characters and accents, and collapse repeated hyphens.
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SEO-friendly URLs
Clean slugs help search engines and readers understand a page at a glance. This tool handles accents (café → cafe), punctuation, and spacing automatically so your URLs stay tidy and consistent.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, descriptive, and free of stop-words and special characters.
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators, while underscores are not.
Yes, accents are converted to their plain ASCII equivalents (é becomes e).
Yes, slugs are generated entirely in your browser.
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