Advice on paginated collection pages

Technical Q&A
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Hi all

We recently launched our new store but i have a question about paginated collection pages.

Does shopify automatically stop these from indexing? Obviously i don’t want page 2 page 3 etc from indexing and causing duplicate content issues

If it does not what is the best way to deal with this?

Thanks

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Nope.
Technically, these are not duplicate content and, say, Google can understand pagination.

If these pages are blocked, your products which are not on the first page of collection would not be reachable / indexable unless you submit the sitemap.

Technically, if still inclined, you can either block them in robots.txt or add liquid code in <head> like this.

{% if collection and current_page > 1  %}
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
{% endif %}

This should be a bit better because specifying only “noindex” allows crawlers to crawl further, just not index these pages themselves.

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Thanks for the replies on this all very useful