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    Making sense of Register.com search engine reminder

    I received the attached e-mail from register.com that recommends I submit my website to major search engines and internet directories to:

    • Google™
    • Google Places™
    • Google Mobile™
    • Bing™
    • Yahoo!®
    • Twitter®
    • Facebook®
    • CitySearch®
    • Foursquare™
    • YP.com
    • GPS navigation
    • MerchantCircle®

    But this raises a lot of questions for me:
    1. google/yahoo/bing automatically crawl websites so whats the benefit of submitting them? isnt submitting to search engines an antiquated excersize?

    2. this business i have is a service (HVAC type stuff) and not a brick and mortar so no reason to submit to Google Places/CitySearch/Foursquare, right?

    3. Twitter and Facebook dont have submissions places... as far as I know. You just create an account on them... right?

    4. We dont have a mobile version of the site. Even if we did, where is there a Google Mobile site submission? Dont the spiders just figure it out for themselves?

    5. Anything else, big picture, that I'm missing and should take away from this???

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    Last edited by sixrfan; May 21, 2012 at 13:37. Reason: adf

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    Honestly, it's not something I do, or would pay to have done.

    They're just trying to drum up some business.

    Also, I would highly recommend moving away from register.com--their prices are ridiculous when compared to other registrars like godaddy, namecheap, and 1&1.
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