Incorrect Header Tags?

Search Engines not following the links?

[andyll]

I have a 6 month old site that has yet to have more than 10 pages indexed by Google. (And not much more by other SEs)

It is an e-commence site with ~90 static pages... around 1/2 are reviews & articles and the other 1/2 are pages arranged in a tree like structure with featured products on each page. (There are about 300 dynamic pages at the bottom level)

I'm wondering if improper use of Header Tags are preventing deeper crawls by the SEs.

A typical page has:

H1 - Main title of page near the top.
H2 - Featured product title with description of product below it
H3 - Links to the categories below the page.

I'm now wondering if the H3 tags are incorrect and are preventing SEs from following them. The format of them now is:

<a href = "page.htm"><h3>category 1</h3></a>

I now realize the <h3> should not be nested within the <a> tags but before changing them I began to wonder if they should used on links at all.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Andy

[King of Bling]

"I now realize the <h3> should not be nested within the <a> tags but before changing them I began to wonder if they should used on links at all."

I don't see any trouble using any <h> tag as a link.

There may be another issue hindering indexing. Splash page, JS nav, imagemaps, something...?

[andyll]

"There may be another issue hindering indexing. Splash page, JS nav, imagemaps, something...?"

All plain text links... I've been studying these boards and trying to follow the advice.

All Search Engines have gone down 1 level only (5 pages). Google & MSN both have only indexed the 2nd item off the reviews page... which really confuses me.

I'll play around with the navigation and get the page size down and see if that helps.

Andy