Effect of changing main page name?

Changing welcome.html to index,html - bad idea?

[elasticatedman]

My site currently has welcome.html as its main page (this was a requirement of my host's subdomain script - which I never did use).
I'm about to change to a new hosting company, and I'm wondering if changing my main page to the standard index.html would amount to shooting myself in the foot.

How would Google react to such a change? My site's a PR5.

[andreasfriedrich]

Have a look at Changing index.htm to index.[url=http://www.php.net/]PHP [webmasterworld.com] - Will my rankings be effected?[/url] or those threads [google.de].

Andreas

[SubZeroGTS]

if you're gonna name it to index,html with a comma, then that's certainly a bad idea ;)

otherwise use the new page, and put either a 301 redirect in the old name, or just leave the page up and submit the new page to google. google will learn by itself that [domain.com...] and [domain.com...] are now the same, and [domain.com...] is something different