Free Slug Generator — SEO-Friendly URLs from Any Title

A URL slug is the human-readable part of a URL — for example, "/blog/how-to-make-pizza" has the slug "how-to-make-pizza". Good slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated, and stripped of special characters. AHX's free slug generator handles all of this in your browser.

Why slugs matter for SEO

• • Google uses words in the URL as a (small) ranking signal
• • Users click descriptive URLs more often in search results
• • Short slugs are easier to share and remember
• • Hyphens are word separators; underscores are not (Google treats "how_to" as one word)

What makes a good slug?

Lowercase letters, hyphens between words, no stop words ("the", "a", "an"), no special characters, no dates (they make old content look stale). Aim for 3-5 words. Example: "How to Make the Best Pizza at Home" → "make-best-pizza-home".

How AHX slugifies

AHX follows the WordPress/Ghost convention: lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip everything except letters, numbers, and hyphens, collapse multiple hyphens into one, trim leading/trailing hyphens. Non-ASCII characters (é, ñ, 漢) are preserved — modern URLs are UTF-8.

Batch slugify

Paste a list of titles (one per line) and AHX generates a slug for each. Useful when migrating a blog with hundreds of old posts, or when generating URLs for a CSV import into a CMS.

Slug uniqueness

A slug generator can't guarantee uniqueness — that's your CMS's job. But AHX shows you the slug as you type, so you can spot collisions before publishing. For uniqueness, append a number ("-2", "-3") or the year ("-2026").