Has Pinging your hub pages helped you?

Yes it helps - but is only one form of SEO. You have to be careful not to over-do it, though, you'll get tagged for Ping-spam, you'll become the boy who cried, "Ping!

It's best to use pinging in a mix of other SEO, traffic-getting hub promotionals.

A great way to get traffic is to blog comment, using your hub URL as your website, social bookmark, write an article or 5 and promote your hubs, then RSS your bookmarks, articles and author's profiles (in the article directories and HP) and then ping-mash them at IceRocket or the like - then submit the massive RSS to various RSS aggregators and then ping that.

Hope that wasn't like an avalanche of info...

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