On a page on my website page I have a list of ALL the products on my site. This list is growing rapidly and I am wondering how to manage it from an SEO point of view. I am shortly adding a title to this section and giving it an H1 tag.

Currently the name of each product in this list is not h1,2,3,4 its just styled text. However I was looking to make these h2,3,4.

Questions:

1. Is the use of h2,3,4 on these list items bad form as they should be used for content rather than all links?

2. I am thinking of limiting this main list to only 8 items and using h2 tags for each name. Do you this this will have a negative or possible affect over all.

3. I may create a piece of script which counts the first 8 items on the list. These 8 will get the h2, and any after that will get h3 (all styled the same).

4. If I do add h tags should I put just on the name of the product or the outside of the a tag, therefore collecting all info.

5. Has anyone been in a similar situation as this, and if so did they really see any significant difference?