I got thousands duplicated meta descriptions on Google webmaster, and I have completely removed the page pagination functionality weeks ago, but still got indexed. How to 301 redirect all the www.website.com/80s-snacks?page=11&q=80s-snacks to www.website.com/80s-snacks www.website.com/cute-rainbow?page=22&q=cute-rainbow to www.website.com/cute-rainbow www.website.com/80s-snacks?page=11&q=80s-snacks www.website.com/80s-snacks?page=27&q=80s-snacks www.website.com/80s-snacks?page=31&q=80s-snacks www.website.com/80s-snacks?page=35&q=80s-snacks www.website.com/80s-snacks?page=48&q=80s-snacks www.website.com/cute-rainbow?page=22&q=cute-rainbow www.website.com/cute-rainbow?page=8&q=cute-rainbow www.website.com/50s-outfit?page=18&q=50s-outfit www.website.com/50s-outfit?page=22&q=50s-outfit www.website.com/50s-outfit?page=3&q=50s-outfit www.website.com/50s-outfit?page=36&q=50s-outfit Code (markup):
It can take months before the urls disappear from the index (I assume you can see that they are indexed by doing a "site:" search)