magento/magento2#14971: Improper Handling of Pagination SEO

[benathomeofchampions]

This removes the p= query string parameter in pagination for the first page, when navigating back to page 1, to avoid duplicate content SEO issues.

Description (*)

First page pagination links will still include the pagination query string (for example p=1) which causes a duplicate content SEO issue.

Fixed Issues (if relevant)

1. Improper Handling of Pagination SEO #14971: Improper Handling of Pagination SEO

Manual testing scenarios (*)

1. Visit a category with more than 1 page
2. Use pagination to go to page 2
3. Return to page 1 via pagination and verify that the pagination query string parameter is not present in the URL

Questions or comments

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[engcom-Alfa]

Hi @benathomeofchampions

During testing we faced the issue

Problem: Value ?p=1 appended when we add an additional parameter

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit a category with more than 1 page;
2. Select list mode
3. Use pagination to go to page 2;
4. Return to page 1 via pagination;

Actual Result:

@benathomeofchampions Could you take a look, please?

Thanks!

[sidolov]

@benathomeofchampions , I am closing this PR now due to inactivity.
Please reopen and update if you wish to continue.
Thank you for the collaboration!

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