Do I need to close the paginator from indexing?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

The site has a news section with pagination,
/news - main
/news/page/1 - 301 redirect to the main page of the section /news
/news/page/2 - etc. other pages
/news/page/3
...
/news/page/100500
is it necessary to put on all pages of the section, except for the main one
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />?

Answer 1

In addition to Ilya Beloborodov 's answer , Yandex's recommendations:

What to do with pagination and product sorting pages?
If there are a large number of products in any category on your site, pagination pages (serial numbering of pages) may appear, which contain all the products of this category. If there is no traffic from search engines to such pages and their content is largely identical, then I advise you to set the rel="canonical" attribute of the tag on such pages and make the pages of the second, third and further numbering non-canonical, and specify the first as the canonical (main) address catalog page, only it will participate in the search results.
For example, the site.rf/chamomile/1 page is canonical, the catalog begins with it, and the site.rf/chamomile/2 and website.rf/chamomile/3 pages are non-canonical, they can be omitted from the search. This will not only prevent possible content duplication, but will also allow the robot to indicate which page should be in the search results. At the same time, links to products that are on non-canonical pages will also be known to the indexing robot.
Often, instead of pagination, sites use dynamic scrolling, when other products in this category are loaded using JavaScripts for a visitor who has scrolled through the catalog to a certain point. In such a situation, it is necessary to ensure that all the content of such pages is given to the indexing robot (for example, using a tool in Yandex.Webmaster), or that static pagination of goods becomes available to the robot.
The second part of the question has to do with sorting pages, such as by price, popularity, or features. To deal with this part, you need to understand whether such pages are needed in the search results, whether they fully respond to user requests. If the pages do not respond to requests from search engine users, it is better to close them using the appropriate rules in your robots.txt, leaving only really necessary pages for the robot to visit.

https://yandex.ru/blog/platon/2878
I also recommend reading this article:
https://seoprofy.ua/blog/optimizaciya-sajtov/pagin...

Answer 2

Better this way

<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/page-1.html">
<link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/page-3.html">

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