If you want get good web traffic, it is important for you to submit your website to search engines. This alone will not guarantee you good traffic, however, with web search engines, so you really must do the work to get your website recognized. Getting a lot of traffic from web search engines, especially Google, is really one of the most important things, whether your website is for your business, or just to get you exposure for your writing, art, or nifty blogging. The fact is that,
if the web search engines do not see your site, then it might as well not be there. Although you will probably get some traffic by referral, the fact is that most internet users are lazy. They want quick results, and will go for the very first website that seems to get them what they want, even if some of the other ones may actually be better. Therefore, it is no use to just perfect your site. No matter how much effort you put in to getting it just right, down to the flashy flash intro and the extensive links page complete with animated gifs, it just will not do alone.
Although there are a great many search engines for the web, in reality today it usually all comes down to just one: Google. Google puts every other web search engine to shame. I have heard it said that all of the web search engines combined only generate a very small fraction of the amount of traffic that Google does by itself, and that is a fact. Of course, Yahoo is important too, especially because it has other services which it provides that are really useful, and so some people are lured into using its web search engine. But the fact is that, if you can get a good, high rating in these two web search engines, you probably have it made. That is a fact. None of the other web search engines matter at all. They can not compare to the combined might of Yahoo and Google, and so are not that important to worry about. This has its advantages, because you can, with a little knowledge, customize your website to hit high in these web search engines, rather than worrying about the literally hundreds of other search engines on the web at all. It would be difficult to score high in ranking for every one of the web search engines, as each has a different algorithm, but it is easy enough to see how to please these two alone.