Making sense of Register.com search engine reminder

Marketing
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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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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.