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How to Create Clear URL Slugs for Articles

A URL slug is the readable part of a page address that identifies its topic. A concise descriptive slug helps people understand where a link will take them, especially when the full page title is not visible.

Create a predictable slug

The title My New Article! becomes my-new-article. Our tool normalizes Latin accents, lowercases the text and replaces separators with hyphens. Non-Latin letters are preserved rather than silently deleted. Browsers may percent-encode those letters in displayed URLs.

Match the page’s real subject

Use the main topic naturally. A guide about resizing images might use resize-images-without-uploading. Adding unrelated terms or repeating the same word does not make the page more useful. A slug is one descriptive element, not a traffic guarantee.

Plan changes before publication

Changing a live URL can break existing links. If a page moves, configure an appropriate redirect and update internal links and canonical metadata. This tool generates text only; it does not rename deployed pages or create redirects for you.

Written for Global Tools Hub · Reviewed 11 November 2026