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One of the first things new clients almost always ask me is, “How Do We Go Viral?”

To truly answer that question (beyond my comprehensive Big Deck on the subject), it’s very important to note which websites must feature your content for it to have a good chance of achieving legitimate virality. Below is my list of the 12 most influential sites in the viral memesphere (‘social-sharing’ sites like Digg/Reddit/StumbleUpon not included), based on ABH.biz’s proprietary system of referral-calculations and cross-linking algorithms. 

Getting featured on any of these sites is crucial to your meme, but if you manage to get your content on ALL of them, send me a postcard, because you just went effing viral. 

12. Fimoculous — Fellow social media strategenius Rex Sorgatz’s digest of interesting and relevant links, along with his expert stratnalysis, is an essential read for all web content aficionados. The site doesn’t have tons of readers, but it has the right readers (though Rex hasn’t been posting as much lately, so see also: Kottke and Waxy).

11. Urlesque — One of the few bright spots in the AOL juggernaut’s corporate Internet-winning strat, Urlesque has assembled a crack team of bright young memesters who are usually among the first viranalysts to spot a new net trend before it reaches full lift-off. Case in point.

10. The Awl — Founded by grizzled NYC media vets Alex Balk, Choire Sicha and David Cho, The Awl — along with their new site SplitSider, for whom I also consult — provides a (sometimes wordy) daily record of the media/blogger/Tumblr elite’s “Conversation”, as it happens in realtime. This is the dashboard for people who matter.

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