Submitting my RSS feed to RSS directories

How will that help my SEO?

[jozomannen]

One of my sites gets about 20 new pages / day. So I've thought about making an RSS that links to the 20 newest pages.

I've seen lists of RSS directories where I can submit my RSS. I've also seen list of RSS pingers. So I have three questions:

1. How will it help my SEO if I submit my RSS to all theese directories?

2. Will my new pages get indexed faster by submitting my RSS to all thoose directories?

3. What does RSS pinging do?

[Iguana]

1. It won't do any harm (unless you go over the top and end up banned/penalised)

2. Almost certainly

3. Just tells the service (e.g. Technorati) that you have updated your RSS feed. They should then send their spider out and update your entries.

The whole blog/rss arena is full of spam pages/feeds/links (mainly for reason 2) so don't expect too much of a boost from this.