What is RSS Feed

What is RSS feed?

• RSS stands for "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication".
• It includes full or summarized detail about published data.
• Subscribing RSS removes the need to manually check the site for the new content which saves time.
• It enables millions of internet users to keep track of different websites or blogs in real time. 
• Feed readers are display RSS feed from websites that you subscribe.
• You need a gmail account to subscribe to RSS feed.
• For example- If you have any favorite blog and you don not have time to check it on regular basis then RSS feed is made for you because by subscribing RSS feed of that website or blog you will get summarize detail about new content which has been posted on the website or blog.
• The summarized detail includes- In Blogger you will see-"Title", "Author", "Date" and in News you will see- Location, "News Summary".
• This is somehow a outdated technique but used by some of the websites or blogs.  

How RSS feed look like on any website or blog -

Do RSS Feeds Benefits in SEO?

• RSS feed has no impact on your site's SERP rankings.
• RSS feeds only helps search engines like Google to index the content of your site faster and more efficiently.
• It is good to use RSS feeds if your website needs to update its content on the regular basis.
• If you have a news website or blog site, having an RSS feed will help search engines pick up all the new URL and crawl them.
• RSS feeds may result in some other sites building free links to your content.
• RSS feeds may result in repeat visitors to your site, which will boost engagement metrics and the value of your pages in Google's search engine results.