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This probably isn't the last time you'll see some odd linking behavior to your site. You're doing the right thing by keeping an eye out on your backlink profile.

Hi Everyone. How are your campaigns looking? Our engineers deployed a permanent fix but wanted to make sure it was able to apply to your campaigns.

Hello! As David mentioned, despite us pulling non-Location specific queries, for many KW Google always uses a local intent.  We recognize this and actually have some stuff in the works that will hopefully solve this problem.  I empathize that this is a big problem for you guys and we are working on it.  If you are interested in helping us test this feature, I would be happy to add you you to the tester list - shoot me a mail at jon@moz.com. In the meantime, as Travis mentioned, AWR Cloud allows you to set location-specific engines and that has worked well for me in the past (caveat: I don't know if/how they have reacted to the pigeon update). If I am spot checking location specific rankings, I use the MozBar in Chrome.  This has been updated post-pigeon.  Super-manual - but gives a ton more insight than just capturing rank/verticals as you can see the full SERP. Hope this helps! Jon

You can just add a canonical url tag. http://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

thanks for the help! i've figured out how to setup 301 redirects from within the hosting account and I'm setting the preferred domain in Google Webmaster Tools like ya mentioned