RSS Feeds and Link Exchange

Is anyone else dealing with this issue?

[West of Willamette]

I have multiple blogs that are reasonably successful using the same SEO techniques that I would use for a website (link trading first and foremost). I keep reading that RSS Feeds are the way of the future and that if you get others to link to and display your feed, you will gain lots of visitors and, by extension, make sales. Yahoo now indexes feeds and I assume, at some point, Google and MSN will too.

I don't pretend that anyone would naturally link to my blatantly commercial blogs because they provide unique and wonderful insight into topics of interest. I also don't know how I could take the RSS feed of my blog to a link exchange like Linkmarket and get others to understand why someone should trade links with a feed.

Does the concept of "you link to my feed and I'll link to yours" exist yet in a commercial context? How do people of the "commercial community" get others to link to their feeds? Is this even of value yet? Any advice would be appreciated.

[JohnHammer]

WW:

I can't see how traing RSS links would have a lot of value right now.

Perhaps if there were some meaningful way to get those feeds listed in directories, it may have some value.

But the SE's as you say will eventually spider and list RSS feeds in their own results, if nothing else RSS only results, in my opinion.

The thing that's helping me right now is using pingomatic. Since I've started using that, traffic to my blogs has tripled and everything is up - sales, ad clicks, IBL's. That baby has been a good find for us.

JH