[mira]

How important is the rss feed for google?

If there are two identical websites, one has rss feed, the other one does not, would website with rss feed rank better in google?

Something is wrong with rss on one of my websites, and I am thinking, should I fix it, or should I just get rid of rss alltogether

[zenneth]

Feeds is of course one of the main criteria to help towards SEO. If you have feeds then this will help the bots or spiders to crawl your site better. This will mean site with feeds will most probably rank better than the other one without feeds.

[Kris]

I think that RSS importance comes mainly from the exposure you get. You'll get a lot of exposure from submitting your feeds. That will consequently increase your visitors and the more popular your site gets the more out outbound links you'll get.
Just my 0.02c.