Good SEOers don't come cheap. It might make more business sense to learn and do the optimising of your website yourself. Theres plenty of resources on the internet including this forum.
Just ask your questions.
If you are referring to RSS Feeds, yes if your content is displayed on another website, then it is a backlink. To be honest, with the type of website you have I would seriously suggest looking at downloading
www.wordpress.org and using this software to power your website. It's free!
You can choose a theme which suits your website for free, or you can get a theme designed (Colleen at this forum is very talented at WP themes) - included within Wordpress is RSS so you don't have to do anything other than submit your RSS feed to websites and add your RSS feed to this forum which helps.
Click on my travel rants blog link to get an idea how your website could look if you used Wordpress.
Hope this helps.
Darren