HTML Anchor tag not working

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Hello everyone, I am extremly new to coding and cannot get an anchor tag to work to connect my two documents would you be able to help

Coding for first page.

<head>
<title>My First Webpage</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="This field contains information about your page. It is usually around two sentences long.">.
<meta name="author" content="Conor Sheils">
</header>
<h1>Welcome to My Page</h1>
<p>Welcome to <em>my</em> brand new website. This site will be my <strong>new<strong> home on the web.</p>
<a href="*folder(s)*/page2.html">Page2</a>


Coding for connecting page


<head>
<title>My First Webpage</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="This field contains information about your page. It is usually around two sentences long.">.
<meta name="author" content="Conor Sheils">
</header>
<h1>Welcome to My Page</h1>
<p>Welcome to <em>my</em> brand new website. This site will be my <strong>new<strong> home on the web.</p>
<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>

All help is very much appreciated
 
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I'm wondering why the use of asterisk and brackets. Just looks like an accident waiting to happen. Asterisks are reserved words in URLs. Oh it did happen.
<a href="page2.html">Page2</a> would work a lot better for you.
 

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