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I just want to know: Is it still necessary or is it still working for traffic, Today?

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Short answer: yes — keep a feed, but treat it as a subscription/distribution channel rather than a standalone “traffic hack.” ’s question is the right one: outcomes depend on audience and use. Some here (for example ) saw no traffic lift from generic feed publishing, while others (eg. , , ) found real value when RSS was used for loyal readers, automated email digests, or podcast distribution. Feeds still help with freshness and discovery signals for crawlers, and they remain the backbone for many RSS-driven automations like newsletters. (developers.google.com)

Practical checklist to keep RSS useful

  • Publish a valid RSS/Atom feed and advertise it in your page head with a rel="alternate" link.
  • Ensure each item links to its canonical URL and includes a stable GUID/pubDate; podcasters must follow RSS rules (GUIDs, RSS 2.0 expectations).
  • Consider push (WebSub/PubSubHubbub) if you want near-real-time delivery instead of relying on periodic polling.

Example head tag and feed link (replace example.com): 

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example feed" href="https://example.com/feed.xml" />

and in an item: 

<link>https://example.com/post-slug?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=weekly</link>

Guidance: follow podcast RSS requirements and push/feed specs when relevant. (podcasters.apple.com)

Tactical notes and measurement

  • If your goal is click-through traffic, publish excerpts/teasers (read-more links); if your goal is reader convenience or email automation, full content may be better. WordPress and many ESPs let you choose.
  • Protect against scrapers and duplicate-content confusion by keeping canonical tags consistent, monitoring feed fetcher/user-agent traffic in logs, and tagging feed links with UTM parameters to measure real clicks. (wordpress.com)

Bottom line: don’t rip RSS out — but don’t rely on it alone. Use it as one channel in a modern distribution stack (sitemaps/structured data, social, newsletters, and podcasts), instrument it, and choose full vs excerpt based on whether you value direct engagement or raw convenience.

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Member Avatar for robert141

Rss stands for realy simple syndication.With the help of rss it is possible to distribute up to date web content from one website to thousands of other websites.Rss files can be automaticaly updated.With the help of rss feed users can check their website faster using rss aggregator.

Member Avatar for bijutoha

Thanks robert141! for your nice attachment. Actually it is not my answer. I asked about, Is it still working for traffic, Today?
Thanks in advance..

Member Avatar for rtrethewey

I have limited experience with RSS feeds. I tried adding it to one of my sites several months ago to try to build more traffic and saw no change at all. Social media has pretty much killed the use of newsreaders, so unless your feed happens to appear on a site somewhere you're not going to get any visibility to speak of. I wouldn't disable news feeds on an existing site, but I wouldn't go to any special effort to add it anywhere.

Member Avatar for Vincentas

I think it was a good idea to start and I was totally sure it might work. However, it seems not to be as effective as it was expected. As for the traffic purposes, unfortunately, it doesn't work well.

Member Avatar for Deepanshu_1

I think RSS feeds are still important because, if you are a website owner it helps you promote and share your content, and if you are a reader it provides you the content. It's still helps you getting traffic, because people loves various RSS readers such as Feedly where they find and read the content they love.

Member Avatar for bijutoha

Um... Now I'm thinking we don't need to avoid it soon. Because many people still use it and there has some benefits in RSS. Thanks so much.

Member Avatar for advent_geek

for a blog, then definitely RSS plays a Huge Role.

using rss with private party would help to derive a traffic.

Member Avatar for larryholley

Yes, still in presentmarketing world, rss feeds are still proves out to be the most important factor for search engine rankings and in SEO. So, it is best ot use that technique to increase your website's search engine rankings.

Member Avatar for seoadamwatson

Now days RSS feed is pretty old idea for getting traffic. This because popular search engine doesn't give so much importance to RSS feed. RSS feed generally update automatically (if not created manually), so it's good way to reach your blog readers.

Member Avatar for joomdev

Yes, definetely it still works.
RSS is good for at least two reasons:
1. Your clients/users are constantly exposed to your products/news.
2. Give you links.

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