Once this hits 3 months I'll stop posting results weekly, but I'll keep an eye on results, maybe recording the first Saturday of each month. Determined to find out what could be affecting my CompareMortgageRates.co.uk website!
Site 1 - Home page 42 days ago and 1 archive 4 days ago (no archives were listed last week). Now 8 posts (up from 7) - 4, 6 X 9 and 33 days.
Site 2 - Home page 10 days and archives 4 & 9 days ago. Posts 3 X 2, 2 X 3, 3 X 4, 2 X 6, 2 X 7, 10 & 15 days.
Site 3 - Home page 7 days ago and archives both 2 days ago. Posts 2 X 3, 2 X 4, 3 X 5, 5 X 6 and 7 days ago.
As I've noticed with other sites, there's been a lot of Google activity this last week. Maybe just taking advantage of Christmas and the internet being a bit quieter? Or maybe preparing for a refresh of the database? Results will change shortly if so.
Sites 2 & 3 do seem to be getting closer on the results, there aren't the marked results of previous weeks. So maybe I'm proving that target=_blank doesn't make any difference. There's a very slight difference, but if anything, it could be slightly in site 3's favour, which does use target=_blank.
The other complication is that I didn't prevent site feeds of any of the sites, so there are now sites out there linking to these sites by using the feeds. So that is watering down the effects of the experiment, hence a reason for letting it drop slowly.
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