After finding someone with a wordpress.com ripping off the content of this blog, I alerted WordPress and it wasn’t just that they took down the offending content – the whole blog went dead.

The URL you give out for your feed matters. Ideally you want people to subscribe to a URL that’s on your domain, yet you also want to use a service like FeedBurner to make your feed more powerful and track it’s usage. Now you can do both, but it requires a few server configuration tricks…

RSS Feeds are particularly powerful in SEO. The major search engines monitor RSS feeds for new content and putting out a feed for your content can help get it picked up and boost the bottom line results for your site.