Ban bots from index page

I have been using McDar's data center checker and have noticed that G loves my www.mysite.com but hates www.mysite.com/index.php.

Should I block bots from accessing my /index.php?

All of my ads, text links, etc. point to the site without the /index.php, so that is why G likes it so much.

I have already removed the /index.php from my sitemap, but I wonder if blocking bots from it would help as well.

Any thoughts? I don't know if doing so would hinder anything or not.

 

Instead of blocking it. Make a 301 redirect from http://www.site.com/index.php to http://www.site.com

 

Yep, if you don't redirect you run the risk of eventually being penalized for duplicate content...

 

I can only redirect from http://mysite.com/whatever (without the www) to other pages, not from http://www.mysite.com from my php admin.

 

the 301 redirection is done via .htaccess , just add a line like:

redirect 301 /index.php http://www.your-site.com