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The only thing that submitting to search engines does is to tell them that your content exist. Yes, it will get crawled eventually, but it will be at the bottom of the totem pole as far as importance.
Search engines like to spider, to follow the links. The more links to your content the quicker and more often it will be crawled. The higher the quality of the links to your content the more often it will be crawled. ALSO, this is important, the more links and the higher the quality of the links to your domain, the quicker and more often you will be deep crawled. A deep crawl is when the search engines visit beyond two or three pages/linking levels past your index page.
FYI: One thing you definitely do not want to do is to submit the same documents multiple times. While many companies still offer this outdated service, the search engines perceive this as a form of spam. At best they will ignore repeated request or any request once a document is in their index. At worst they will penalize your document or domain which will affect your rankings in a less than pleasant manner.
Links = Great
XML Sitemaps = Good
URL Submission Forms = Waving your hand in the air desperately yelling, "Pick me! Pick me!"
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