How Help Barter helps digital marketers bring traffic to a website

Every digital marketer knows the problem: a website is only as good as the number of people who see it. Paid ads stop working the day the budget runs out, and organic growth takes months. Help Barter gives you a third option — traffic that you earn by trading, not by spending.

Here are five ways marketers use Help Barter to bring real people to a website.

1. The Website Traffic Generator

Members of Help Barter earn Time Coins by working through a challenge: they open twenty listed websites, stay on each for at least fifteen seconds, and say what kind of website it is. Your website can be one of them.

That makes these visits different from bot traffic or "pay per click" networks:

• Every visitor is a real member with a profile.
• They have to look. A countdown runs on each site, and they must file it into the right category before moving on — so they actually read what you do.
• Every website gets its turn. All listed websites are shown before any website is shown twice, so a small site is never drowned out by a big one.
• Local first. People see websites from their own city, region and country before the rest of the world.

You can watch how often your site was shown and how many people opened it on your Website Listings page.

2. A page of your own that search engines can find

A Business Listing, Profile Listing or Featured Post gives you a public page at your own name — /business/your-brand, /profile/your-name or /post/your-headline. Each one is listed in our sitemap and can be found in search. Put your website, your social profiles and your best products on it, and it becomes another doorway into your site.

3. Featured Posts that people actually read

Write a genuinely useful article — "Five mistakes people make with their first online shop", "How to photograph food on a phone" — and publish it as a Featured Post. Readers who like it click through to you. Unlike a sponsored post on social media, it stays up for the whole run you bought, and its address never changes.

4. Ads that are shown fairly

Featured Ads and Image Ads use a rotation that always shows the least-shown advert next. You are never stuck at the bottom of a pile while bigger advertisers take all the views.

5. Partners who share your offers

On Business Cross-Promotion, two businesses agree to promote each other — on Instagram, in a newsletter, in a WhatsApp group. Nobody pays Help Barter anything, and every promotion is recorded on a public track record so both sides keep their word.

Paying for it without a budget

Most of these are paid for in coins, and you can earn Time Coins by helping other members for fifteen minutes at a time. A marketer who spends an hour a week answering other people's questions can fund their own traffic.

Ready to try it? Read the Website Traffic Generator guide or the Website Listing guide.