Does having a text box with content that only appears when you hover over a link, good for SEO?

[Phil]

Hi, It won't really have much of an impact in terms of SEO because that content will be somewhere on your site and will be indexed anyway. Also depending how you implement it the search engines bots will see the hidden text even if your visitors will not ( until they mouse-over the links ).

On thing for sure is that this type of page design is poor usability and is not the best way to construct your website. Personally I would not use this method as it will not improve your search engine rankings and will most likely frustrate your users.

If you main objective is to boost your Search Engine Rankings then there a 101 other things that you can do to improve this.

Best of luck.