Sub Domain or New Domain?

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

Hi All,

We have a client that has a business with three different services. 2 of these services compliment each other in a really obvious way, but the 3rd, while related is not such a obvious complimentary service.

For this reason, service 3 kind of weakens the content of the website SEO wise for the two main services. Also, internally at the business it is run by an entirely different team so it feels culturally somewhat different.

So, the client wants to pull all the content about service 3 and put it on a different website.

Which would you chose as a domain for this new site:

service3.existingdomain.co.uk

or

www.service3+brandname.co.uk

[AndreVanKets]

I would leverage the domain name and create a sub domain. Its still the same company, but with a different service so a sub domain would work best imo.