Do you ever hit the "publish" button for your new post then cringe because you see a mistake or missing word, or realize your forgot to add an image?

During recent consults with clients who are launching new blogs, the question popped up about how to make sure their blog posts were "correct" before they went live. While I don't think there are hard and fast rules, there are a few things you can review to make sure your best work is going out to the world. Following are 13 things I look for before hitting the "publish" button...

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Do you ever wonder if anyone is paying attention to your content? If anyone sees the updates on your Facebook page or your tweets or your fabulous blog posts?

Or maybe you wonder why no one retweets your links or shares your status updates or links to your blog…

Could be that your content is nearly invisible, buried in the gazillion of bytes of information that make up the wild, wonderful Web. 

On a recent flight, I had time to read Dan Zarrella's new bookZarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The science, design and engineering of contagious ideas. It's a quick read based on Zarrella's exhaustive study and analysis of hundreds of thousands of tweets, status updates, blog posts and emails. Zarrella is a social media scientist and popular speaker on webinars and at conferences. If you like data, you'll love Dan Zarrella.

Back to the book. How do you give your content the best chance of being visible to the people you want to see it?

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Really, are you fully and totally present when you're interacting with your community on and offline? Or, are you going through the motions, fully automated and disconnected?

I ask because I was confronted with that question last week during Brendon Burchard's four day Experts Academy live event. My awesome friend Kathleen Gage invited me to attend the event as her guest and initially I was luke warm about spending four full (12-13 hour days!) at a marketing event. 

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With the introduction of Google Plus to the social networking mix, how are you managing your social networking? 

If you want to maintain a viable presence on a Facebook page, on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and now Google+, where do you spend your energy and how do you decide what to post where?

With more than 75 million unique visitors just in March 2011, you can't ignore the impact Amazon.com can have on your online visibility. Therefore I ask, "are you using 

Amazon to boost visibility for your business?" If not, here are a few ways to consider…

7 ways you can harness the world's largest ecommerce site to generate visibility for your business, even if you're not a published author…

If the audience for your blog are primarily business people, then there's a good bet they spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, the business to business networking site. I've been spending more time there myself and as I've been optimizing my profile and participating in groups more, I've discovered there are quite a few ways to get your business blog content in front of your contacts and compelling them to click through to your site.

Here are 7 ways I've discovered to drive LinkedIn contacts to your blog:

1. A link in your profile - at the very minimum. Make sure to customize the label of the link rather than using the default label "my blog."

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