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January 6, 2026

# RSS Feed FAQ: Questions People Actually Ask

**What is RSS feed, in plain terms?**
RSS never fully went away — podcast platforms, some news aggregators, and countless internal tools still consume it directly, which makes a working feed genuinely useful distribution infrastructure, not a nostalgia feature.

**How often should this be checked?**
Regularly, not just once. Letting the feed go stale after a CMS migration, silently breaking every subscriber's update stream with no direct notification to them. Set a recurring reminder rather than trusting memory.

**What's the most common mistake here?**
Including full post HTML with broken relative image paths that don't resolve correctly once pulled into an external feed reader.

**Does this actually affect rankings, or is it just best practice?**
It's rarely a single ranking factor on its own, but it affects whether search engines and users can do what you actually need them to do — which shows up in rankings indirectly, often more than any one direct factor would.

**What's the fastest way to check this on an existing site?**
RSS Feed Generator — paste your URL in and it does the check directly, no setup.

Related: our guide to WhatsApp click-to-chat link.

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