Google Core: Panda in disguise: actually just duplicate content penalty

Recently my most important client got slapped by core in 1 july. 100x I have told him: don't duplicate your product descriptions accross amazon, ebay and your resellers. "Why we #1 lmao, we bulletproof". Now we are back to #7 first time in 7 years.
So after many years of never thinking much about this update, I started to refresh my memory a bit and came to the conclusion, that this is basically panda. Panda also had this retarded questionnaire about the site quality.
And since its ecommerce, what could be the source of thin / duplicate panda content? Product pages of course, pasting your own content on amazon and ebay, your resellers stealing your content. So this whole EAT propaganda bs, is all a simple case of duplicate content at the end. Many such cases!
Do you agree or is there something more treacherous going on with this update? My client is in the medical niche.
I started rewriting all the content. I will do all the recommendations, such as citing sources and having a disclaimer about each text having been fact checked by a professional. Ultimately I am pretty sure this is just duplicate content penalty because of amazon.

My respect for being able to manage such clients. I haven't had my first one. I'm scared I would not be that good at handling issues.

This has nothing to do with Panda..

Medical Niche means EAT

duran1 said:

This has nothing to do with Panda..

Medical Niche means EAT

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Yeah, this is true. If you think you can fake medical proof, scientific research and some stuff like doctors' words, it just won't work.

crnack said:

My respect for being able to manage such clients. I haven't had my first one. I'm scared I would not be that good at handling issues.

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doesn't matter when they pay well. And they aren't wrong, we had smooth sailing for 7 years. Every

duran1 said:

This has nothing to do with Panda..

Medical Niche means EAT

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lol EAT is bs. Do you think you can just pay a doctor to write for you and you rank #1? EAT = links.

crnack said:

Yeah, this is true. If you think you can fake medical proof, scientific research and some stuff like doctors' words, it just won't work.

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It won't work because it doesn't matter. EAT is literally backlinks from reputable sources. Google doesn't and can't know who actually wrote your content. Anyone can pay some doc to slap their name on their website.

crnack said:

My respect for being able to manage such clients. I haven't had my first one. I'm scared I would not be that good at handling issues.

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Doesn't matter when they pay well. I make 4.2k with this client and have very little to do usually. Now I have a lot to do obviously, but that is rare.

atentat said:

It won't work because it doesn't matter. EAT is literally backlinks from reputable sources.

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You are probably more right than we are, so we have taken a lesson from this thread.

atentat said:

Doesn't matter when they pay well. I make 4.2k with this client and have very little to do usually. Now I have a lot to do obviously, but that is rare.

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I think I would outsource the writing of the fresh content for main websites and leave the original pieces for amazon and resellers.

K can assure you, duplicate penalty is a myth, or it doesn't work across different domains to be specific.

So, this is not why you lost ranking. Good luck finding what really did.

KHer0 said:

K can assure you, duplicate penalty is a myth, or it doesn't work across different domains to be specific.

So, this is not why you lost ranking. Good luck finding what really did.

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when you and amazon have the same content you are going to get filtered out, its that simple. This is how it obviously works and what google says. You are the first person in the universe to claim otherwise. Please elaborate.

crnack said:

You are probably more right than we are, so we have taken a lesson from this thread.

I think I would outsource the writing of the fresh content for main websites and leave the original pieces for amazon and resellers.

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I can either change the clients site or get 20 resellers algon with amazon and ebay to change theirs, so its an easy decision.

So was the core updated duplicate content or thin content penalty? how does one recover from a panda penalty?