Paginated pages are being indexed?

[WTH]

I have lots of paginated pages which are being indexed. Should I add the noindex tag to page 2 onwards?

The pages currently have previous and next tags in place. Page one also has a self-referencing canonical.

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Well, the question is why you don't want those paginated pages ranking. I assume that the content on those pages is different from each other and first page, and is still relevant. correct? If so, then by noindexing you might take away from your SEO, rather than add to it. If anything, canonicalize them to the first page (still very debatable if you should).

If you want your first page ranking - just make sure that it's optimized more than paginated pages - more popular products are on the first page, description text is there and is optimized, maybe do some targeted backlink earning to that page.

Hope this helps.