Ping.fm, Is all that necessary?

I do it and get good results.

But I think just setting up the profiles and posting to them isnt' really enough.

For every one of those sites you need to submit your profiles rss feed to feed directories and ping them, and for example - if you have profile a, then you want to import the feeds for profiles b,c,d, etc. into profile a, and so on.

I always set up profiles on those sites using my main keywords as well.

The main benefit is obviously indexing when you post a url through ping fm, because it gets syndicated across 30 sites or whatever (you can turn off url shortening in your settings which is a good idea for other reasons).

The secondary benefit is that if you turn url shortening off, and have your keywords in your articles or posts or whatever like blog.com/2010/01/keyword it seems to help a lot with getting ranked for that keyword.

I did a round of this last night and saw the traffic on the site I set it up for jump 4x from the daily average before noon, and $0 to $1.26 in adsense revenue before noon (this was just an autoblog set up to test a niche).

My advice would be to test it. Set up a test site that hasn't been indexed, with a good amount of content, with good on page SEO. Set up the accounts based around your main keyword for the site. Add your url to the profiles. ping all of your url's with your keyword in it through ping.fm to all those properties. Submit the rss feeds for the profiles using whatever you use to submit feeds.

It is labor intensive and will take you about a day to do for one keyword, but if you have analytics set up the next day you'll know whether it's worth ever doing again.

To be clear you have to connect everything well, and you have to be using profiles with your main keyword in the url, and you have to be pinging url's on your main site with the keyword in the url.

I don't want to post any "proof" because I'm not selling anything related to this but I think it's worth a test.

I use ping.fm for traffic generation (have been for the better part of the year), and if you take the time to do it properly it can generate a TON of traffic to your site that's independent of Google.

/Steven

I love Ping...it works best when you have built a large Social Media (cult) Following...

I've found ping.fm to be a great tool, I use it to update a multitude of my profiles with "status updates" "item of the day" posts for my ecommerce site, and general info my niche may find entertaining or useful.

To expand upon the functionality of ping.fm, I use a tool called Hootsuite. This tool lets me do several things:

1. Schedule posts to ping.fm, twitter and facebook/fan page all at once.
2. It shortens the url to a trackable .owly link that I can see click through stats on.

and I thought ping.fm was a radio station

I do it every time. Otherwise you do not have chance to notify the Online Community about your fresh content. If you want people to make sure you are still alive in this business you have to sent them some "Hi!" from time to time.It's simple!