corollary question - is there a rankings advantage for my site to subscribe to a couple of relevant RSS feeds?

For example, I'm working on a real estate site for a region. I've found a couple of blogs about the region elsewhere and I will link to their feeds ( is that the right terminology?) because they will be useful for visitors.

But do those also help the site in rankings? I read that somewhere ...

Thanks, hope this isn't too dumb a question :-)

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