Noindex on Paginated Pages Detector

Putting a noindex on pages two and beyond of a listing was common advice for years. The idea was avoiding duplicate content. The problem is the side effect: over time the directive makes the search engine stop crawling the page — and with it stop discovering every link that exists only there, which tends to be the oldest items in the catalogue or blog.

Paste the URLs with each one's HTML, separated by blank lines, and the page identifies which are paginated and which carry the directive. Pagination detection covers the usual patterns: a query parameter with a number and a path with a numbered segment. The result is the list of what is marked, so you can decide case by case.

Google's current recommendation is leaving listing pages indexable, with ordinary pagination and crawlable links. If duplicate content is the worry, the right instrument is each item's canonical pointing at itself, not blocking the listing. Worth noting that the previous and next page markers stopped being used as an indexing signal in 2019 — Google treats them as ordinary links.