URL Slug Generator and Encoder

From an article title to a clean URL

When you publish a post on WordPress or add a product to your online shop, part of the web address comes from the title. That part is the slug. A title like "10 Tips & Tricks for SEO!" has capitals, spaces and symbols that do not belong in a URL. Jood's tool turns it into "10-tips-tricks-for-seo": lowercase words separated by hyphens, nothing else.

How to use it

1. Paste the title or the address into the box.
2. Choose the action: generate a slug, URL encode or URL decode.
3. Click "Start Now", then "Copy".

What each mode does

• Generate Clean URL Slug: lowercases the text, strips accents (é becomes e), replaces every space or symbol with a hyphen, and trims hyphens from both ends.
• URL Encode: converts special characters into %XX sequences that every system understands, following the RFC 3986 standard. Useful for a query parameter that contains spaces or an ampersand.
• URL Decode: the reverse. Handy when you copy a link and get a long string of percent signs instead of readable text.

What makes a good slug

• Keep it short: three to five words are enough. Drop words like "the", "a" or "how to" if they add nothing.
• Only include the year if the content really depends on it, or you will have to change the address later.
• Use the main keyword of the page, the way people would search for it.
• If you change the address of a page that is already published, set up a 301 redirect with the htaccess redirect generator so visitors and search engines follow it.

Hyphens are the standard word separator in URLs. Google's own guidelines recommend them over underscores, which some systems read as part of a single word.

To tidy the capitalization of your titles themselves, try the case converter. Your text is sent to Jood's server, converted, and not stored.

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