Submitting to Google while crawlers are out?

Submitting to Google while crawlers are out? does this help?

[rilee12]

I have been watching crawlers for last couple of days on my stats -

Does it help to be submitting to google when the crawlers are active?

Thanks

[Marcia]

They've got crawlers out all the time. If your site is already being crawled, it isn't necessary to submit.

[Wired Suzanne]

Googleguy answers:

Q: I have heard that it is always better to let Google FIND a site, rather than submit it. Does submitting a site directly to Google vs. letting Googlebot find it have any consequence in Google's algorithm?

A: The main difference is that when we find a site after crawling the web, we know that there's at least some credible person on the web who is "voting" for your site by linking to it. So we have a PageRank value for that page, even if the PageRank is very low. With a submitted page, we really don't have any external verification that anyone but the submitter thinks the site is good. So it never hurts to submit your site, but I would also take the time to see if you can find some related sites or a part of the Open Directory to link to your new site.