Google indexing duplicate page content with Page #### in post title and /page-2 in permalink instead of the ones I set

try the Yoast seo plugin. In the past few weeks, I tried switching to SEO audit plugins, most of them available options like declaring to search engines that No index pages / page2, page / n … I turned Back to Yoast Seo, Yoast Seo even in the free version, has a pre-installed token with a search engine for pages from page2, Canonical, on the first page.