Canonicalization

Okay kiddo,
Imagine you have a big toy box with lots of different toys in it. You might have a teddy bear, a toy car, and a toy train. But sometimes you might forget and put your teddy bear in the toy car slot or your toy train in the teddy bear slot. That can be a little confusing when you want to find them later, right?

Well, a website is kind of like a toy box too. Sometimes people type in the wrong web address or link to a different page on the website, and this can cause confusion for search engines. This is where canonicalization comes in!

Canonicalization is like organizing your toy box so that each toy has its own proper place. It helps search engines understand which page is the primary or most important page on your website. This means that even if there are different versions of a page, like different URLs or web addresses, canonicalization tells search engines which page they should prioritize and show in search results.

So, let's say you have a website and you wrote an article about cupcakes. You might have different links to that article, like http://example.com/cupcakes and http://www.example.com/cupcakes, but you only want the search engines to show the first one. By telling them which version to prioritize via canonicalization, you're making sure that everyone knows where to find the article on your website - just like making sure you know where to find your favorite toy in your toy box!