(Entry was posted by JL Faverio on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 04/25/2019).

Fixing weird URLs

What could cause this and what would you rec to fix it?I see a page (example: https://example.com/example-page/) also shows up with the following URLs https://example.com/example-page/page/2/?s and https://example.com/example-page/page/3/?s

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E Dieter Martin: That`s most likely your CMS who`s generating those URLs. Make sure you have a proper canonical tag for your primary page. Wordpress does this often, but if I am not mistaken, the SEO plugins there are able to even set those additional pages to "noindex".
Michael Martinez: The "?s" fragment is used to indicate a search results sequence in some CMS`s. In WordPress that would result in a page description looking like this: "some number SEARCH RESULTS FOR ``"
Michael Stricker: Some search plug-ins, add-ons or embedded on-site search apps may do the same, or an over-zealous CMS that insistently resolves any URL to a 200 status, even if it must gin up a new page to land on. Noindex them as theyâ€™re written. In the past Iâ€™d have said use URL Handling in GSC to advise Google they are dupes.