Fantasy pagination on single page without pagination - bad SEO

The CMS Questions
1

After switching a paginated category to a page with a complete list of all entities on a single page, I noticed that Google still lists a certain page. It turns out that you can enter any page number and it does not make any difference. Works without complaints. Same on the home page which never had a pagination active. example.com/page:404 :heavy_check_mark: Not so on pages with a specific pagination, which behave like expected. I checked controllers and models and there is no pagination active on the pages in question. Any ideas, anyone?

2

Yes, if there is no active pagination, page:404 or any such pattern acts as a normal parameter, like tag: travel etc.

3

Yeah, well, that’s even worse, actually. It should be a 404 in that case. Otherwise, it’s duplicate content, isn’t it?

4

Theoretically, yes, in practice, no, because as long as there is no such URL that a search engine could ever index, this will not happen. If Google has such URLs in their index, you can manually remove them if they are no longer valid, or add a route that returns a 404.

5

Really? Rather tweak Google than my own system?

6

As I outlined above, you have two options. And I think the easiest and quickest way to remove a result from Google search results is to use their removal tools.

7

Yes. I guess you are perfectly right.

8 
    'routes' => [
        [
            // 'pattern' => ['(:alphanum)):(:alphanum)', 'register/page:(:num)'], # error
            'pattern' => 'foo/page:(:num)',
            'action'  => function () {
                return false;
            }
        ],
    ],

It would not be Kirby if that worked.

9

You cannot get the params or query strings via the pattern:

'routes' => [
	[
		'pattern' => 'notes',
		'action'  => function () {
			if (kirby()->request()->params()->page()) {
				return false;
			}

			$this->next();
		}
	],
],
10

That corrects for the pagination params, at least. Symptoms solved. Thank you.
If more of those fantasy URLs occur, I will adapt the .htaccess.