Just as I was starting to think that the whole SEO Experiment was doomed to failure, it does appear to be showing significant results.The first site, the one without any links in, still has the home page (cached 42 days ago), an archive page (42 days) and 2 posts (43 & 42 days). So, as expected, it's not showing as popular with Google.
The second site has a new page, indexed only this morning. It's index cache is 9 days old and now has 8 posts cached (4 caches 9 days old, 1 is 8 days old, 2 are 7 days old and the newest 4 days).
The third site, using target="_blank" in all of it's links in, is interesting. The index cached is 9 days old, then there's also an archive page (5 days) and 6 posts (5, 11, 2X 7, 29, & 31 days old).
Given the page that appeared overnight was cached 4 days ago, I suppose then that anything under 11 days since the last cache can be counted as "this week" (it takes google time from reading the site to adding the information to the indexes). Interestingly, a page from site 3 has also been updated overnight - showing as 5 days since the last cache. So maybe another sign of site popularity is the time it takes from visiting the page to being in the results (this blog typically takes 2 to 3 days). Something else to keep an eye on!
If you had the choice of which search engine behaviour out of the 3 listed above you wanted for your website, no doubt you would choose (2). Interesting that the site in which all inbound links use target="_blank" has such different results.
Keep watching.
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