IMO it would be silly to have a blog and NOT offer an RSS feed. Give your visitors as many ways as possible to stay up to date on what you do.

RSS feeds are good and useful but the mistake some make and wrong ideas they might have is that as soon as they add RSS feeds to their web pages, the next week they would be among the top ten Google rankings while the introduction of RSS is for distributing the news and content pages and also having them indexed faster not for rankings.

RSS feeds are the good source of promotion of any update done in website. It instantly make available to usesr and fresh food for bots.

RSS directories are same like web directories. In RSS directories there are categories and you just need to find the exact category and submit your RSS feed URL. In some directories only .xml type feed url are excepted. In some directories you will need to register and upon verification you are able to add your RSS feed. Basically, RSS feeds are placed on those sites who struggles for unique content.

@bobchrist

Very well said on your first post. Yes. RSS is used not only for blog but also for other kind of site.

While the merits of RSS feeds can be debated without coming to a consensus, is there anything about RSS feeds you would like to see changed or improved upon?

RSS feeds are good source of potential traffic for your site.. but using this also have a disadvantage.. your site will be prone to SPAM too.

I think RSS feed is important.. if your content is updated very frequently mostly in the case of blogs and podcasts...

so rss feed will help you if you have a blog or a postcast....
it help you to syndicate your data easily ..and keep the visitor in touch

RSS (most commonly expanded as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
Check this website for quick tips about RSS
http://rssdiary.marketingstudies.net...s_seo_tips.php