Free Online Advertising
Free visitors for your website
Are you looking for visitors to your website without an advertising budget? Then you are in the right place. At eBesucher you do not have to pay for advertising with money - you can earn it. Anyone who looks at other members' pages in the surfbar collects points, and those points are the advertising credit for their own campaign.
On top of that there is a one-off gift: 10,000 free visitors for your website in return for one blog post about eBesucher - 400,000 BTP, worth around 21 euros. Whether you want German traffic or visitors from anywhere else, you decide which country they come from, how long they stay and which sub-pages they see.
Free online advertising: two routes, neither of them billed
You want to advertise your site without spending an advertising budget. There are two ways to do that with eBesucher, and neither costs you a cent. They combine: one runs permanently, the other is a one-off boost.
Earn your advertising credit
You leave the surfbar running, look at other members' pages and collect points for it. Those points are your advertising credit: you spend them on visitors for your own site. No top-up, no credit card, no invoice - you pay with time instead of money.
10,000 visitors for one blog post
Publish a post about eBesucher on your own site and we will give you 10,000 visitors, once - that is 400,000 BTP, worth around 21 euros. The form further down this page is exactly for that.
Either way you decide which country your visitors come from, how long they stay and which sub-pages they see.
Earn your advertising credit instead of paying for it
The currency here is called BTP. You do not have to buy it. Every page you look at in the surfbar and every click ad you complete credits you BTP, and you bid those same BTP on your own campaign. That puts you on both sides of the same marketplace: you supply attention and you buy attention, and the two settle against each other without an invoice ever being written.
The click campaigns, the surfbar and the tasks all run on that one balance. Which of them you use is your choice - the way you funded the balance makes no difference to how a campaign is delivered.
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Sign up for free
In under a minute, no payment details, no contract term. The registration is free for both sides of the marketplace - for advertising just as much as for earning.
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Run the surfbar
The surfbar shows you other members' pages one after another. For every page seen and every completed click ad we credit you BTP. The base rate passes 80 % of the impression cost to whoever is surfing.
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Create your campaign
You bid those same BTP on your own campaign. You set country and language, use visitor filters to decide who gets to see your page, and set how many impressions run per hour.
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Get visitors - or cash out
Impressions run in real time. If you would rather not spend your balance on advertising, you can have it paid out from 2.00 euros via PayPal or SEPA. How the points come about in detail is explained on the traffic exchange page.
Advertising online for free: what it costs you
On Google Ads, Instagram or Meta one rule applies: no budget, no impression. Pay nothing and you are not shown. Here it works differently, because the advertising credit can be earned as well as bought. That puts you on both sides of the same marketplace - and on neither of them do you have to pay.
Free website traffic: a worked example
A surfbar visit from Germany costs around 2 BTP at the current average bid. So 1,000 visits to your site need roughly 2,000 BTP. Buying those points costs about 0.44 euros net per 1,000 visits. Earning them in the surfbar costs nothing - the full calculation is on the pricing page.
Where can I advertise for free?
There are more free advertising platforms than most people assume. What mainly separates them is what they want instead of money:
| Channel | What it costs | What it is good for |
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| Your own social media profiles | Time, continuously | Existing followers, few new contacts |
| Business directories | Time, once | Local visibility, little traffic |
| Search engine optimisation | Months | The best channel - but not a quick one |
| Forums and communities | Time and tact | Niche audiences |
| eBesucher surfbar, tasks or click ads | your own activity instead of money | Predictable visitor numbers, starting today |
What sets this apart from most lists online: the first four give you no commitment on visitor numbers. With a surfbar campaign you set how many impressions run per hour yourself.
Free advertising platforms: what they usually turn out to be
Search for free advertising platforms and you mostly end up in directories: you enter your name, address and a link, and after that little happens. That is not worthless - a listing is a listing - but it is not advertising, it is storage. Nobody browses a directory for your offer unless they already know your name.
The difference with the surfbar is direction: a directory waits to be found. A campaign is delivered. That is why the first four channels in the table above come with no commitment on visitor numbers - not because they are bad, but because they are a different kind of work.
What advertising costs elsewhere - and why it does not here
Anyone looking to advertise online runs into the price question first: what does an ad cost on Google, on Instagram, on TikTok? Everywhere the answer depends on industry, competition and time of day - the one certainty is that an invoice follows.
At eBesucher that invoice does not arrive, as long as you are active yourself. You collect points three ways: in the surfbar by leaving it running; through click ads you complete; and through tasks you carry out. Each of them fills the same balance your own campaign is paid from. Buying is never required - it is faster, but it is a shortcut, not the way in.
Getting your website known: advertising and search are two different things
“How do I get my website known?” is a question with two answers, and they get mixed up a lot. Advertising brings visitors - immediately, in a volume you set. A Google ranking brings visitors permanently and without ongoing effort, but it takes months to get there.
To be clear: visitors from the surfbar do not improve your Google ranking. Anyone promising you that is selling something they cannot deliver. What visitors do give you is something else, and for a young site often worth more: numbers. Your analytics show where people drop off, which headline gets read, which version of a page performs better. With ten visitors a month you cannot see that; with a few thousand you can.
Search engines count other things: what the page says, whether it is technically sound, and who links to it. If you want to know what is holding you back, the SEO report is the place to start; what people actually search for is what the keyword research answers. Both are paid extras - what is free on this page is the advertising, not the consulting.
Free advertising for companies, clubs and startups
Advertising for small companies
Small companies rarely have an advertising budget, but almost always have a site too few people see. A campaign here has no monthly fee and no minimum term - what you book is limited by your balance, and that balance can be earned. More on advertising for companies.
Free advertising for clubs and associations
A club cannot simply spend membership fees on advertising. Surfing time, on the other hand, costs the treasury nothing: whoever is at a computer anyway collects the credit that promotes the next event.
Advertising for startups
Start-ups need numbers before they have budget: how do visitors behave on the landing page, where do they drop off, which version convinces? That takes traffic, not necessarily money. More on advertising for start-ups.
Getting an online shop known
A new shop has the range but no visitors yet - and without visitors no data on what sells. How to promote an online shop is covered on the solutions page.
Advertising for local service providers
Trades, practices, studios: if you work locally you do not need visitors from all over the world but from one country and one language. That is exactly what you set in the campaign before the first impression runs - more on advertising for local service providers.
Getting your own blog known
For a blog the surfbar pays twice: it brings more readers to the blog - and it shows you what other webmasters are working on right now. If you publish regularly you also have the shortest route to the 10,000 free visitors: a post about eBesucher is not extra work for a blog, it is one topic among many.
Affiliates
In affiliate marketing volume decides: no traffic, no commission - and no commission, no budget for traffic. Credit you earn yourself breaks that circle. How to put traffic to work in affiliate marketing is covered on the solutions page.
How do I book free advertising for my website?
You are only three steps away from 10.000 free visitors. Follow the instructions below and tell us the website that you wish to promote. Promote your ad campaign now - we will contact you shortly!
Write a blog post
A post about eBesucher on your website, at least 300 words, linking to us.
Use your own site
Written by you, not published anywhere before, not on a free blogging platform.
Fill out the form
Name your page, submit - we review the post within 48 hours.
Two conditions most submissions fail on: the post has to sit on your own domain - entries on Tumblr, WordPress.com or Blogspot do not count - and it has to be written by you and not published anywhere before. It does not have to be exclusively about eBesucher.
Request your 10,000 free visitors
How do I get more visitors to my website?
Getting visitors is one thing, getting the right ones is another. More than a dozen visitor filters let you set which country someone has to come from and which browser language they need to bring, and exclude what does not fit. With the visitor session you also register several sub-pages, and the same visitor gets to see several of them in succession rather than the home page every time. Across a few thousand views your analytics then show which of your pages holds people and which they leave straight away. That is the real return: not the number under the counter, but the answer to why it looks the way it does.
If you want to scale traffic faster than your own surfing allows, you buy the credit instead of earning it - both run through the same account and the same campaign. How that works is under buy visitors.
What free advertising can do - and what it cannot
Free does not mean effortless. If you earn your credit in the surfbar you are investing time instead of money, and how much comes out of it depends on how long the surfbar runs. If you need a large campaign inside two weeks, surfing alone will not get you there - bought credit is the more honest route then.
And visitors are no substitute for an offer that convinces. A page where nobody finds what they came for loses people even when a thousand of them arrive - it just loses them faster and more visibly. Which is exactly the use: you find out instead of guessing.
A note on the rules: pages with popups, frame breakers or malicious code are prohibited. What is allowed and what is not is set out in the terms for advertisers - and that applies to free campaigns exactly as it does to paid ones.
Frequently asked questions about free advertising
Does free advertising at eBesucher really cost me nothing?
Yes. Registration is free, no payment details are asked for, and there is no contract term. You pay for your impressions with points, and you can earn those in the surfbar instead of buying them.
Where can I advertise for free?
There are three ad formats at eBesucher, and you pay for all three from the same balance - whether you bought it or earned it in the surfbar. In the surfbar your page is shown to members automatically; you set how long it stays up and how many impressions run per hour. That is the cheapest format and the one for reach. A click ad works the other way round: your creative is served, and whoever clicks it opens your page deliberately - you set the dwell time, up to ten minutes, and every click is verified by AdScore. With a task, a member searches Google for a term you specify, clicks your page in the results and spends a set time on it; that visit arrives through the search engine rather than as a direct call. You do not have to choose - the three run side by side and are controlled separately.
How do I get advertising credit without buying it?
By running the surfbar. Every page seen and every completed click ad credits you BTP; the base rate passes 80 % of the impression cost to whoever is surfing. You then bid those BTP on your own campaign.
Do I need my own website to advertise?
For a surfbar campaign you need an address to advertise - that can be a profile, a video or a sales listing. For the one-off 10,000 free visitors you do need your own domain, because the post has to live there.
Is registration free?
Yes, and it takes under a minute. There are no hidden fees, no minimum term and no obligation to ever buy credit.
How long until the first visitors arrive?
Impressions run in real time as soon as the campaign is approved. For the blog post route we review your submission within 48 hours; the 10,000 visitors are then delivered over 30 days.
What is the difference between free and paid advertising?
Technically none. It is the same campaign with the same filters and the same delivery - the only difference is where the points came from. Buying is faster - being active yourself costs nothing.
Can a club or a small company advertise for free too?
Yes. There is no restriction to private users. The surfbar route is particularly interesting for clubs, because it does not touch the treasury.
Start advertising for free
Sign up in under a minute, no payment details. After that you collect your advertising credit yourself - in the surfbar, through click ads or tasks.
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