The best way to use Linklicious really depends on your goals. We run 25 or 30 SEO clients and I'll build big blasts and drip out links for weeks/months.
Pinging most definitely works work getting the links found. Pinging all of your links at once is a very sure way of harming your site, if only to dance it away for days/weeks. That's why scheduling really helps. Otherwise you'd need to manually ping 100 or 200/day. I'm sitting on two clients right now that have the home page killed for several weeks just because of too much linking/pinging. I wanted to push it and got the smack down.
It's also worth noting that pinging once doesn't guarantee a crawl. If you aren't tracking crawls you should at least ping 2x or 3x on different days.