Are you using the proper share links? They look like this:

http://meta.askubuntu.com/q/8835/449

The segment on the end if my user ID on Ask Ubuntu. That's how the link is tracked back to my account when somebody clicks it. That's how the badge is earnt.

To rephrase, if you're just sharing the full links (like the one you see in the browser address bar):

http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/8835/announcer-badge-not-received

You're not going to get the badge.

Are you using the proper share links? They look like this:

http://meta.askubuntu.com/q/8835/449

The segment on the end is my user ID on Ask Ubuntu. That's how the link is tracked back to my account when somebody clicks it. That's how the badge is earnt.

To rephrase, if you're just sharing the full links (like the one you see in the browser address bar: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/8835/announcer-badge-not-received) you're not going to get the badge.

As Dan also points out in the comments, each visit to a valid URL needs to be a different IP from the others to count as a unique visitor. So even if you have a thousand real people click the link, if they're all using the same IP address, the system counts them as one. Same goes if you click the link a thousand times. This is crude but we are only talking about a badge here.