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Generating SEO-Friendly Slugs

When building a blog or an e-commerce site, you want your URLs to be readable and SEO-friendly.

What is a Slug?

A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a particular page on a website in an easy-to-read form. For example, if your article title is "10 Ways to Learn React in 2026!", the optimal slug would be 10-ways-to-learn-react-in-2026.

The Rules of Slugs

To create a valid slug, you must:

  1. Convert all characters to lowercase.
  2. Replace spaces with hyphens (-).
  3. Remove all special characters, punctuation, and emojis.
  4. Remove accents from international characters (e.g., Ć© becomes e).

Our Slug Generator handles all of these rules automatically, ensuring you get a perfectly sanitized URL string every single time!

Try it yourself!

Put this theory into practice using our free, client-side tool.

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