There's massive differences between "my site isn't hugely popular, but I get some readers", "my site is up and findable but genuinely no one visits except scrap

There's massive differences between "my site isn't hugely popular, but I get some readers", "my site is up and findable but genuinely no one visits except scraping bots" and "it's available, people would visit if they knew it existed, but they're not being offered it, they're being offered bot distillations with no reference back". The last one is the worry. The middle is... where we all start. The first is not a bad place to be, all things considered!