claaarky - 9:51 am on Nov 1, 2012 (gmt 0)

Google knows which are the most competitive terms and competition usually means most valuable commercially - Panda ensures only the best quality sites rank and the more competitive a phrase is the more difficult it is for low quality sites to rank (even in the Adwords slots).

I don't think there's any cherry picking going on, it's just the affect of a quality based ranking system (which I'm suffering from as well).

[edited by: claaarky at 9:52 am (utc) on Nov 1, 2012]