Importance of Feeds

The true importance of a Feed is understood by a SEO. Before talking abouts its importance, let us first be very clear what feeds are all about.
The Feeds are also known as RSS or Atom. The feeds help in syndicating contents so that it can be available in different formats on your users browser, it can be a blog, video file, podcasts..etc.
RSS feeds, a mechanism to allow users to easily view new articles and content posted by website owners or bloggers.
RSS feed can be defined as an easy Blog search engine, also it is more than just a blog search engine as any website can publish its content through RSS and it is also not necessary that all blogs will be distributed through RSS.
RSS feeds are also defined as the News aggregators as one can create customized news and publish it through RSS search engines. So it can be understood how much important is a RSS feed for SEO purposes.