AFAIK, most helicopters, when hovering at their recommended hover height, will make an acceptable landing on hard ground even if the pilot just sits like a statue - certainly the 300CB and R22 will do so (I've demonstrated it), and I've been a passenger in a 206 for the same demo.
The most important things to keep from breaking the helicopter are to avoid ANY backward movement, and to limit as much as possible the yaw and sideways drift, although on a hard surface the yaw is not particularly dangerous. Finally, if you raise the collective too soon or rapidly, you will actually gain altitude (or not descend), then there you are with no RRPM and up in the air, and that can be a real bummer, because the helicopter just falls with nothing to cushion the landing. Crunch.
So, "pedal" (for yaw), "settle" (let the helicopter descend), "pull" (smoothly raise the collective to cushion the last 1' of descent). A little lateral cyclic to keep the helicopter from drifting sideways is icing on the cake!