Pagerankpage’s The Blob

RSS feeds will increase ranking of the supplier (publisher) and user of RSS feeds. As for the user, the use of RSS feeds will result in frequently updated content and so to a more dynamic website. This will attract linking from other sites.

Secondly, more targetted feeds are more specific to a topic. This contributes to the ranking on this topic.

In the Third place: More links to a more dynamic website will increase the frequency of updates in the ranking of search engines.
In general with a proper selection of feeds, using RSS feeds is beneficial to both parties, the publisher and the user.

Finally: as user be aware that RSS feeds will lead traffic from your site to the publisher. The adverse effect could be that the publishers’ site is more interesting..

In general members of a Community share a common interest or topic, community websites offer a lot of information and/or answers to questions about a certain topic. As the information on a community website is mainly focussed on one topic it is helpful to have a link on the topic related community websites to your website. First of all the refering website is often highly ranked in search engines and so they attract relevant visitors and visitors might click the link to your website. Secondly by having a link to your website you get pagerank from the referring site and so the link increases your pagerank (so your own ranking will increase in the search engines).