Just be consistent in how you link to each individual page, meaning don’t use index.html in any links to Page A, but do use index.html whenever linking to Page B.

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Google's John Mueller said the location of internal links, links you place on your website to other parts of that same web site, does not necessarily matter if they are in the body content, footer ...