Hello, if i use ezinearticles to boost some content on my site will i get any penalty at all? as of now im in the google sandbox (no heart to write articles when im not even listed) and need to do something to pass the time while im in here. id like to use ezinearticles but i cant really afford to get any more things holding my site back other than this sandbox filter. thanks!
No, you just won't likely rank well for any of the articles you put up. Putting those articles up won't do you much good honestly, unless maybe your in a specific niche and the articles are specific. The content relevancy may help your other pages rank better, but not those actual pages (in my opinion, of course).
well its a fishing niche (http://www.largemouthbasstips.com) and would like to help out my visitors by adding more content. And plus I would like to start a section of my page that says "last updated" if they see its updated every other day or so people will be more inclined to hit the bookmark button
Duplicate content penalties typically reduce the rankings for specific pages with the duplicate content. It may take a while for G to match up the content, or it may never apply a penalty. G is so inconsistent that it is hard to predict. If I was going to use an article from another site, I would assume that it will eventually get hit with a dupe content penalty. BTW, if you post the articles and the specific pages start getting flagged as Supplemental Results when you use the site:mydomain.com query, the pages most likely go hit with a dupe content penalty.
You won't get a duplicate content penalty for using exine articles or any other article directory for that matter. If you post the same article on your site thousands of time and only change the page title and url, then you will get penalized. Read this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=756539#post756539