Count a skill action, not a hit
Site Drop ladder: add your site after Get my link → 15-min Just entered. 1 friend → Rising hour on the homepage. 2 → week text line. #1 (not owner) → 7-day banner. Full guide · See it live
Direct answer for search and AI
Referral boards that count visits are farmable. ViralRefer counts one thing: a unique friend completing Get my link. That is a skill action — not a hit, not a pageview, not a share screenshot.
Hits vs skill actions
A hit is anyone loading a URL. Bots do that. Traffic exchanges do that. A screenshot of “10k views” is still zero friends.
A skill action here is narrower: a unique person opens your /r/VIRAL-… link and taps Get my link. They choose to start their own race. You cannot buy that as a commodity the way you buy clicks.
Why visit boards die
If the scoreboard rewards volume of loads, the rational move is to buy volume. Farms sell visits. VPN pools recycle identities. The honest sharer loses to whoever optimizes the meter.
So ViralRefer does not put visits on the board. See why visits don’t count for the short version. The long version is systems design: starve the attack surface that cash and vanity metrics create.
What the board actually counts
- You tap Get my referral link on viralrefer.app — no email.
- You send your
/r/link in a real conversation. - A unique friend opens it and taps Get my link.
That is one verified friend for the current week (Monday 00:00 UTC → next Monday). Copying alone does not lock credit. Opening your own link does not count.
What the skill is
The skill is persuasion and trust in conversations you already have — not ad-spend gymnastics. One honest sentence beats a blast list. Ready captions: share generator. Tone guide: share without spam.
I’m racing for the ViralRefer homepage — #1 gets a banner for their site. Get a free link and try to beat me.
Then paste your /r/ link. No cash language. No “easy money.”
Prize design matches the metric
There is no cash prize. Cash attracts farms. The weekly prize is a 7-day homepage banner for this week’s top racer who is not the site operator, with at least 3 verified friends. Two verified friends may add a homepage text line for the rest of the week. The operator can sit on the live board but cannot take contest prizes — operator cannot win.
Open worldwide. 18+ (or majority where you live). No purchase necessary. Details: banner, not cash · official rules.
FAQ
Is a pageview a skill action?
No. Zero until a unique friend taps Get my link.
Can I buy traffic and still climb?
Paid visits are still not credits. Buying fake unique people is abuse and gets hidden. See rules.
How is this different from a hit counter?
Hit counters optimize for loads. ViralRefer optimizes for unique people who start their own link — the same action you took.
Promoter links (/a/) are a separate door — tracked credit and a public listing when someone taps Get my link. Not cash. Not the contest banner. Promoter vs racer · What counts