Everyone else with our feeds ranks higher

[L]

A lot of people put our feeds on their site. When I look for exact text from our feeds in feedster, a bunch of other sites using our feeds rank higher than us.
:mad:
Our feed is dead last much of the time.

We are a large, well-established site, and some of the feeds that rank higher than us are from sites with no shown PR and/or not updated, etc.

What is the secret to ranking higher than others using your feed in feed search engines?

[bhartzer]

What is the secret to ranking higher
Generally speaking, the 'secret' (if there is one) is to get more links and to get the bots to crawl more often.

You can get the bots to crawl more often by updating your page(s) on a regular basis. Then you just need to get more links.

[L]

So, do the links back to our site in our feeds count as "getting links"?

Our feed links have tracking tags on them... eek..not good if they count, eh?