Not exactly. When a website is created there is a single section that provides Search Engines with basic information. The site owner determines what this information is, how it is presented, or if that section will even exist. That is the only information that is available to the search engine and that is all that displays in a web search. If I decide to leave that section of code out of the page, the search engines will never even see that my site exists.
But scraper sites are different. They actually hack into another website's database and steals information to feed into it's own site to appear legitimate when they are not. Then they use this info to piggyback off of the other site's Search Engine Optimization instead of creating their own. This is one form of theft of another's advertising.
With the reputation I have worked hard to build, they are certainly stealing free advertising from me that I have not authorized, riding the coattail of my hard work. Then it looks as though I condone or approve of these low-rate sites, when I absolutely do not. This is a second form of theft.
I am certainly not receiving anything from these sites that I have not already achieved on my own, before they ever existed. I flourished just fine without them, but they could not exist without resorting to theft.
Hopefully I have broken this down enough for you to understand.
Originally Posted by Solitaire
Are people paying to use these sites, most likely not, a lot make their money sending people to cam sites, dating or video sites, or get people to buy banner space.....can you profit off of what traffic they send you...absolutely, of course you can set it that the search robots won't see your site, (by the way you have to add code to keep the robots away in with a robot.txt file to keep them from indexing your site) but you mostly likely won't, they will display on the search results usually what you have written on your site using whatever you have as metadata or just take what it see on your home page and use it as the search description. and they will hit every page of your site, so it seems you missed my point.
You can somewhat control what's display if say using something like Google adwords and setting your ads and extensions and landing page. but it will still show whatever the robots pick up, if someone search not using the keywords you provided, and get this if someone want to use your site name as a key word and wanted to pay to have it display at the top of a search using your site name, their ad will show up before yours in the search using you site name or just your name in general.
Scrapper site really don't need to hack into another site database, most info you can get by doing a simple inspect of the page and you can get most everything, pictures, etc. I suspect most of the time they just look at the ads and copy the info without doing anything more then reading the ad. they do just like search robots, just with a lot more detail taken.
Also most guys really don't give a shit where you post, a lot of the ladies here have already mention that they have gotten good and bad from both high and low brow sites, and most old timers know that rates are usually different depended on which site you post on and location you are visiting at the time. a lot of ladies post on Facebook and twitter, that doesn't make them less than someone that post on say Eros, it's not to the vast majority of guys in the least, I mean ECCIE is not considered high end, nothing wrong with ECCIE, but it's not high end, and in many areas is not even relevant at all it's all a matter of perception.