Seems to me that Google are under pressure to be more secure with the data they collect so it's a natural progression I feel to hide all the data from us website owners and SEOs; so I'm not one of those who think that it's a ploy to get us all to spend on AdWords.

However, I'm not sure that hiding the keyword data rather than anonymising it was the best way for them to go. After all having the keyword data and knowing what keywords are performing best helps us and webmasters to fine tune content and deliver a better experience for our website visitors.

Still google ain't gonna change just because a few SEO whine and whinge about it. Rather they'll strengthen their security position and maybe remove more data from our view.

I predict that they'll remove the New Vs returning visitor stats on the same security basis. After all you would not want a web site owner knowing you came back to their website. That'd be a massive infringement of their right to privacy!

Hey Carlo

I would go for a separate domain but try buying an aged domain that's clean with some existing back links. Failing that a new domain with keywords in the domain. Yea it still works!

Hope that helps

steve

I read somewhere that BING use the keyword tag as a spamming signal. Anyone else see that?

EDIT: Read that here:

http://www.semrush.com/blog/tips/the-myths-behind-meta-keywords/

Would it be more confusing to have:

http://itsupportservice.myelectronics.com rather than http://myelectronic.com/itsupportservice/

At least you get the leverage all the SEO work on the main domain!

It may depend on the brand and sub-brand though. What's the main main brand and sub-brand?

For what it's worth, my opinion is that you should go for a /folder/ off the main domain...

Regards

Steve

Could you let us know the URL and the keywords you're targeting?