Remove Redirect - What Google Search Effects?

[freelistfool]

I currently redirect my index.html page to a home.html page. I'd like to remove the home.html page and place it's content in the index.html page. Will this have any effect on my Google rankings?

I currently rank from #1 to #15 on a bunch of search terms and don't want to ruin them.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[WiseWebDude]

I wouldn't do it...it could do NO good if you just want to change the name and all. Not worth it, IMHO.

Or, just redirect index.html to / and no one would see what the page name was anyway so it would not matter and would be best to leave the same name...

[freelistfool]

Just to clarify almost every inbound link to my site comes to the domain name. My server automatically picks up the index.html which has a META HTTP-EQUIV=---Refresh--- with my home page content as the url.

I think it's screwing up my google analytics as none of the query hits to my home page are being recorded (hits I can see in webmaster tools and the limited stats from my hosting account). I'd like to clean this up so I can do better keyword targeting on my home page.