The message that the traveler leaves to "the listeners" of the house is that he came to the house exactly like he said he would.
The answer to this question can be found within the final third of the poem. The traveler has arrived at a lone house. It is nighttime, and the moon bathes the house in light. It's definitely an eerie setting and circumstance. It is made even more eerie by the fact that nobody seems to be in the house. It is empty for some unknown reason. If it isn't empty, then the occupants are intentionally staying completely silent while the traveler repeatedly knocks on the door. Eventually, the traveler gives up on waiting for someone to answer the door. Before he leaves though, he says to nobody in particular the following lines.
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
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