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Redirecting via a 301 is always the preferred method of pointing one page to another Devon. Just from what I have seen, I can't see a reason why this should cause you any issue. Just have the location pages follow a preferred route and stick with that. Take all of the non-preferred pages and 301 these to the ones you wish to use. You should be fine and avoid any issue of duplication. -Andy

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in this case simply canonical tag the less optimized pages to the main page you want to represent your site this would be the representative URL most likely: mysite.com/product.html I would lose the .html extension too.

I'd ask that question again when people have a better understanding of the Penguin update. Although with all of the work Google has done over the past few years to push brand and devalue exact match domains I would personally invest in something other than redirecting my domain to a genericKW dot net. This is just a philosophical point though - I don't have hard facts to back it up.

Thanks for the advice.  All responses were very helpful.

Try changing mysite.com/index.php to mysite.com directly in the database. Backup first.

In Google Webmaster Tools you can fetch the page as googlebot and then submit the page to the google index.  No guarantee that this will improve your rankings but it helps insure that Google is looking at the most updated and optimized version of that page. In Google Webmaster Tools, go to: DIAGNOSTICS > FETCH AS GOOGLEBOT, then enter the url for the page you want crawled and click FETCH.  After the url is successfully fetched it will appear in the list below the search box and a blue link next to the "Success" check mark appears with the text "Submit to index", click that and you're set.