- Serve ads. Many of us won’t see the ads thanks to content blockers.
- Publicize links, as often for affiliate link spam (generate unintentional clicks) as for SEO (backlinks). The first site you pasted has CPC affiliate links in the footer. Sometimes this is hidden in a CMS plug-in, so the site operator doesn’t know that their site is serving pages that aren’t related to their site.
- Phish credit cards or passwords. If a scammy site has a shopping cart, it’s probably doing this. This is usually on hacked servers, while the first two are often just on low-end hosting services.
- Serve ads. Many of us won’t see the ads thanks to content blockers.
- Publicize links, as often for affiliate link spam (generate unintentional clicks) as for SEO (backlinks). The first site you pasted has CPC affiliate links in the footer. Sometimes this is hidden in a CMS plug-in, so the site operator doesn’t know that their site is serving pages that aren’t related to their site.
- Phish credit cards or passwords. If a scammy site has a shopping cart, it’s probably doing this. This is usually on hacked servers, while the first two are often just on low-end hosting services.