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Mt Kisco Realtor | 4 Link Building Strategies for “Too Busy for Link Building” Local Businesses
Great tips Brent. I’m going to share this on my Google Places and Local SEO news channel at Scoop.it.
While I understand that in some hyper competitive local searches link building is essential, for most local businesses it is not.
I have SEO companies that come to me for my Advanced Google Places and Local SEO training all the time that say “I’ve backlinked the hell out of this site and can’t get it to rank.”
In LOCAL it’s more about some very specific on-site factors that make all the difference. I get local companies in the 1, 2, 3 spot all the time that don’t have ANY links and I’ve never built a backlink. Just took a Dentist from #16 to #2 in one day by tweaking his site. (No links, no Places optimization).
Oh and I’m talking the new ‘blended’ algo that’s 90% based on organic SEO, not the old 7 pack Places algo that is totally different. That one is not controlled by backlinks or on-site at all.
But again it’s all relative and based on the competition. So I’m not negating the need for links, it’s just that in local it’s not the be-all, end-all some people make it out to be. So much easier to optimize a site than to build backlinks. But if you need to build links, these are some great tips!
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Bedford Hills Realtor | Amba Farms Bounty Served Up at LeRoy Neiman Birthday Bash – Bedford-Katonah, NY Patch
Oklahoma City chef John Bennett wrote about the experience of planning a birthday party for famed artist, LeRoy Neiman, best known for his paintings of sports events and leisure activities, in the Sept. 11 issue of The Oklahoman/NewsOK.
Featured on the menu? Produce from Bedford Hills’ own Amba Farms, operated by Liz Taggart.
Bennett, who first met Neiman on a wine-buying trip in Bordeaux in the 1960s, enlisted the help of friends and fellow Oklahoma City natives Quint Smith, who is executive chef of the Stamford, CT, Yacht Club, and his wife Jackie Smith.
According to the story, the Smiths visited Amba Farms the morning of the event, held in June, and brought it to The Studio, Neiman’s home and work space on Manhattan’s West side.
They selected “fresh unusual radishes, baby carrots in three colors, micro flowering herbs, arugula, fresh-picked asparagus and strawberries,” according to Bennett.
The menu, which featured smoked cod dressed with Taggart’s vegetables, included “rare vintage Amuse Bouche reds, three other reds and two white wines as well as flower bottles of Perrier Jouet Champagne.”
Read Bennett’s full story here.
To read more about Amba Farms, read our story on the farm chef tour held there last fall, and about Taggart’s involvement in the garden planted at Rippowam Cisqua School last spring.
Editor’s note: Neiman’s name was originally spelled incorrectly. We’ve fixed the copy.
Pound Ridge Realtor | VIDEO: Jewish Community Honors 9/11 with Day of Kindness – Bedford-Katonah, NY Patch
The JCC of Mid-Westchester, along with the UJA Federation of New York and several area JCCs, hosted a Day of Chesed (Kindess) on Sept. 11, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
“We could think of no better way to recognize the tragic events of 9/11 than by joining with community members and other organizations for a Day of Chesed, which means kindness in Hebrew, to benefit those in need,” said Michael Witkes, Interim Executive Director of the JCC of Mid-Westchester in a statement.
B’nai Brith Youth Organization, Hillels of Westchester, JCC on the Hudson, J-Teen, New Rochelle Jewish Coalition, Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester, Solomon-Schechter School of Westchester, The Jewish Renaissance Experience, Westchester Hebrew High School, Westchester Jewish Community Services and Westchester Jewish Council also co-sponsored the event.
Bedford Realtor | Your Guide to Tuesday’s Primary – Bedford-Katonah, NY Patch
Primary elections for county and municipal government seats will be held all over the New York State tomorrow.
Here’s the rundown primary races in Bedford:
County Legislator, District 2
Lisa Douglas of North Salem is challenging Peter Michaelis of Bedford for the Republican line in the race for Westchester County Legislator, 2nd legislative district.
Michaelis secured the Republican and Conservative endorsements. The winner will take on the incumbent, Peter Harckham, in November’s elections.
District 2 includes Bedford, Lewisboro, Mount Kisco, North Salem, Pound Ridge and part of Somers.
Click here for previous coverage:
- Q & A with Lisa Douglas
- Q & A with Peter Michaelis
- Michaelis Enters Race for County Legislature
- Douglas Enters Race, Seeks to Topple Harckham
- Michaelis Secures GOP Endorsment, Douglas to Seek Primary
Bedford Town Board
There are two seats open on the town board for the November elections. Luke Vander Linden, a Republican, is challenging Christopher Burdick and David Gabrielson, the incumbent Democrats seeking re-election.
When you get receive your ballot tomorrow, here’s what you’ll see:
- On the Conservative Party line, you’ll see Luke Vander Linden, and space for a write-in candidate.
- On the Working Families Party line, there will be two write-in spaces.
- On the Independence Pary Line, incumbents Christopher Burdick and David Gabrielson, who received the Independence Party endorsement, will be listed. A third line will be listed for a write-in candidate. Luke Vander Linden, who received the Republican party endorsement for Bedford Town Board, has forced an Independence Party primary through the “opportunity to ballot” petition process.
The top two candidates receiving the most votes in each primary will win spots on the those parties’ lines for town elections this November.
Read our previous coverage here:
Where and When to Vote
Polls are open from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m.
The information below is listed on the town’s website. If you are not sure where you go to vote, call the Town Clerk’s Office at (914) 666 4534.
District
Location
1
Bedford Presbyterian Church
Bedford Village
2
Rippowam School
Bedford Village
3
Katonah Memorial House
Katonah
4
Community House
Bedford Hills
5
Community House
Bedford Hills
6
Katonah Village Library
Katonah
7
First Presbyterian Church
Katonah
8
Katonah Elementary School
Katonah
9
Town House
Bedford Hills
10
Bedford Presbyterian Church
Bedford Village
11
Bedford Presbyterian Church
Bedford Village
12
Cisqua School
Mount Kisco
13
Rippowam School
Bedford Village
14
Town House
Bedford Hills
15
Katonah Village Library
Katonah
16
Katonah Memorial House
Katonah
17
Bedford Presbyterian Church
Bedford Village
18
Town House
Bedford Hills
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