canonical to non-filtered page? I've decided to remove some of my site's pages from the Google index to focus more of the

I've decided to remove some of my site's pages from the Google index to focus more of the indexed pages on higher quality pages. The pages I'm going to remove are already in the index. These removed pages are filtered pages which will continue to exist, I just don't want them in the google index because they add little quality to the same page without any filter selected. I've added in webmaster tools specification of narrow for the parameters that set these filters, but it doesn't seem this changes anything in how he handles these pages.

So I'm considering three options:

Adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> to the html header of these filtered pages
301 to the non-filtered page that contains the most similar information and will remain in the index
Canonical tag. Which I'm not sure is exactly the mainstream use case, as these aren't really the same pages.

Which should I use?

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@Jessie594

Google has a blog post about handling the sort of navigation your site has and the post has lots of examples and suggestions - eg nofollow, robots.txt, canonical tags, separate hosts. - as well as best & worse practices which you might find helpful. Faceted navigation

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@Sherry384

In your case you should use canonical, because:
1. 301 redirect will "kill" your pages not only for Google, but for visitors too.
2. Meta robots isn't the way of removing from index Google is recommend.

Canonical is a perfect solution in this case for you.

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