Text to Slug Converter – Create SEO-Friendly URL Slugs Free
About the Text to Slug Converter
The Text to Slug Converter turns any title or sentence into a clean, URL-friendly slug. Paste your text, choose a separator, and the tool automatically lowercases it, removes special characters, transliterates accented letters, and optionally strips stop words or numbers — producing a slug that’s ready to use in a URL.
This tool is built for bloggers, SEOs, and developers who want consistent, readable URLs without manually editing every title. For example, “How to Create a Website in 2026: A Beginner’s Guide!” becomes how-create-website-beginners-guide, and “Café Menu & Naïve Recipes” becomes cafe-menu-naive-recipes — accents removed, punctuation stripped, and words neatly joined. If you’re preparing content before creating a slug, our Case Converter and Word Counter can also be useful.
We tested this tool with titles containing punctuation, accented characters, symbols, and long phrases to ensure the generated slugs remain clean, readable, and SEO-friendly.
How to Use the Text to Slug Converter
- Paste your text into the Input Text box (e.g. a blog title or page heading).
- Choose a Word Separator: Hyphen (-), Underscore (_), or Dot (.).
- Set a Maximum Length if you want to limit the slug’s character count (0 = unlimited).
- Enable Convert to lowercase to turn “My Title” into “my-title”.
- Enable Transliterate accents to turn “café” into “cafe” and “naïve” into “naive”.
- Enable Remove stop words to strip common words like “a”, “the”, “is”, “for”.
- Enable Remove numbers to exclude digits like “2026” or “123” from the slug.
- Click Convert to Slug and then Copy Slug to use it in your URL.
If you’re organizing multiple page URLs, you can compare them easily with our URL List Comparator.
Frequently Asked Questions
A URL slug is the readable part of a web address that identifies a specific page, such as “how-to-create-a-website” in yoursite.com/how-to-create-a-website.
It strips common filler words like “a”, “the”, “is”, “for”, and “and” from the slug, keeping only the meaningful keywords. For example, “How to Create a Website” becomes “create-website” instead of “how-to-create-a-website”.
Search engines and servers handle plain ASCII characters more reliably in URLs. Transliteration converts letters like é, ñ, or ü into their closest English equivalent (e, n, u) for cleaner, safer URLs.
Google recommends hyphens (-) for URL slugs, since search engines treat them as word separators. Underscores can join words together in search results, so hyphens are generally the safer choice.
Shorter slugs (around 3-5 relevant words) tend to perform better for readability and SEO. Use the Maximum Length option to keep long titles concise.
Yes, this tool is completely free with no signup required.
