To draw visitors to your site you must promote it. Most visits arrive from somewhere else on the web. Search engines, which attempt to catalog websites by topic, trigger a great deal of site traffic. You'll also get a lot of sites that don't. There are approximately 10 top search engines.
New engines pop up all the time.
LookSmart is relatively new, but it already the third or fourth most searched engines after Yahoo, HotBot and InfoSeek. Since each search engine organizes, acquires, stores and categorizes its information differently, the same search on different search engines is likely to turn up different results. To get listings, whether you plan to submit your site yourself or hire an expert as we recommend, you must prepare several kinds of information. Your page titles are most important to some search engines. Your home page title should convey the essence of your site and each subsequent page title should explain what is on that page.