Keywords in the page-name make almost zero difference. The only time it matters is when someone pastes the link by itself somewhere like a forum, and there is otherwise no other anchor text. Somewhere like this forum, will take the title of the page, and make it the anchor text, so even this doesn't matter one bit here.

Worth noting, is that the name "index.html" should never actually show up, unless you link to it using that name. A link like this:
Will link to the same document as:
Except when you click through on the former link, only the name of your website will display in the URL bar, with no hint you are on "index.html".

When you visit a site by domain name only (i.e. cnn.com as opposed to cnn.com/page.html) the server sends you to a default page.

By default servers are set to use index.html, index.htm or index.php as the default page (this can be changed if you have access to certain configuration files, which you probably don't!).

So the answer is yes, your home page should be named index.html or index.htm.

Bill

ok, so the seo don´t take any beating then...

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