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yes this helps a lot sending traffic to your website by putting this button "subscribe via RSS" on your site ,so readers don't necessarily keep checking back to any particular site. All all we need to do is subscribe to the RSS feed, and then read the updates from the site, delivered via RSS feeds, in what's called a "feed reader.
I don't see that RSS in and of itself does anything for SEO, except, that it does distribue your content more readily and if that content has links to your site, it will help with your PR