Hello, I am wondering how bad is it to have articles from ezinearticle on your website. Will you be punished for duplicate content. I know it is best practices to have all original content but what is an acceptable rate ? thank you
First thing to note is that you will not be penalized for duplicate content by Google. Google just apply a filter on duplicate content and you may find problems in getting good ranking for these articles, but no penalty.
Agree with Stephen. You can copy it without being penalize. But of course, achieving high or even good ranking on these articles is impossible unless you change something on it.