I made a site for a friend and Google doesn't even show it! Made previous ones the same way as i did this time but IDK whats going on.
Yep my rankings have jumped all over the place recently too. Now they seem to be settling back to where they should be. While we temporarily lost some rankings, we also temporarily gained others. Now we seem to be back to square one. So I believe the glitch explanation from Matt Cutts. Either that or they tried some algorithm change and it produced poor search results.
I won't disclose some top queries i am familiar with, but let me tell you: when i perform some searches for 4 major keywords in Europe and i get #1 results with Yellow pages and WP/Blogger blogs full of spam/mfa/5 lines of text ripped from another site - I SAY IT'S A BIG PROBLEM. Google needs to wake up. Irony: We have tools to report Adsense scammers, we have tools to report link sales (lol) BUT we don't have a tool to report shitty results.
Well there is, when you do a search down the bottom of the results theres a link "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" but the irony is that doesn't work either. I think it goes in to their auto delete folder.