Slug Generator

Turn any title into a clean URL slug — lowercase, no accents, no spaces, ready to share.

How to use

  1. Paste the title or phrase you want to convert.
  2. Choose the separator (hyphen is the web standard) and click "Generate slug" — or just watch it update as you type.
  3. Copy the slug and use it as your post URL, file name or link alias.

About this tool

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page: in vai.la/blog/como-criar-links, the slug is "como-criar-links". Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, and contain no accents or special characters — so they never need percent-encoding, are easy to read aloud, and look trustworthy in search results and messages.

The conversion does four things: it lowercases the text, transliterates accented characters to their plain equivalents (ção → cao) using Unicode normalization, replaces every run of spaces and symbols with a single separator, and trims leftover separators from the ends. The result is stable and predictable — the same title always produces the same slug.

Hyphens are the recommended separator for URLs: search engines treat them as word boundaries, while underscores historically glue words together. Use the underscore option only for identifiers in systems that require it, like some file naming conventions or code.

Frequently asked questions

Hyphen or underscore?

Hyphen, for anything public on the web. Search engines read hyphens as spaces between words; underscores are treated as connectors.

Do slugs affect SEO?

Modestly, yes. A readable slug with the page's main words helps users and search engines understand the URL — and readable links get more clicks when shared.

What happens to accents and ç?

They are transliterated: ç becomes c, ã becomes a, é becomes e. The slug keeps only letters a–z, digits and the separator.

Is there a length limit?

No hard limit, but shorter is better. Keep the words that identify the content and drop filler words — 3 to 6 words is a good range.

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