It can be a good e-marketing campaign. You can get good traffic from those links, directly from people that are visiting the site that hosts this iframe but I still don't think it will help from a SEO perspective - as far a slink building.

Maybe I am off with this but can you try this using a widget ?

(Build a small widget that will contain your link and some other info that the salon owners can find it useful to have on the site).

In this way they will just load the widget or a a rss that will display the additional info and your link directly within that particular page. if you can give them some extra benefit they and a very easy way to include that widget - a copy and paste action - you can have a win/win for both sides.

Anything that will move away from the iframe procedure can help your website from the SEO perspective. In my opinion you should turn it on all sides in order to get the best of it.

If there is no solution, then yes, better an iframe then nothing as it can bring some dedicate hits but again, I don't think it will bring any SEO benefit.

Normally for this type of flow you won't get any value for that link.

That is because that iframe is in fact a page that is displayed within another page and use for this purpose alone - to link to you that is. That page doesn't have any authority because no one is linking to it - not even the site that part of - this page won't be in any navigation, sitemap or any other linked source - so it will have almost no value. Maybe a little value as part of an authority site but I doubt it will cont.

Just to underline the above - you will have a link from an obscure page, a satellite that for the user will look like is part of an important page but for Google and friends (since they see beyond the smoke screen) this page won't pass any link juice.

This is the reason why for link building one of the most important requests is : the link shouldn't be within an iframe or using a javascript.

My personal opinion is to move away from this concept as it can eat up a lot of resources with only a small to none amount of benefits.

Hope it helps as an outside advice.

The Title tag will help you rank but it's also very important for direct users as with a "spamy" look with a very long staffed title tag user will / can wander.

Related with the SEO factor, with many words within the title tag the keyword power will be diluted.

Personally I keep everything as short as possible but in some cases when the title is dynamic (post name or whatever) if it looks right then you can let it slide (see thetitle of this page - is 70+ but it looks right.. right ? :))

I am curious about what other people feel about this ...

With Google traffic estimator / keyword Tool you get the data from the SE itself. There can't / won't be another better source for this kind of data.

I personally use this tool alone for this type of work.

if you don't have data for long tail keywords that is probably because the search for those terms is very low as far as volume.

..just my opinion but again, even if you find a source that can show you other # i think it's practically impossible to be accurate.

Hope it helps at least to enforce what you are using and put your mind to ease.