One method of getting nicely relevant links to your local site is to get local bloggers to write about you (either positively or negatively, preferably the former). But how do you find local bloggers? One solution would be to search on a blog service such as Technorati, but even then it can be a needle in a haystack depending on the location you’re looking for (just think how many Springfields there are, or how many different uses of Lincoln there are out there).

A new solution for this problem is a site that officially launched on Jan 1st this year - PlaceBlogger. The intent of this site is to gather together all local sites and allow you to search by location for all blogs that are related to that geography.

So how well does it work? Well, it’s early days, and they do have over 11,000 blogs worldwide registered (the second location behind the US is the UK with 17 blogs), although when you split that down to a community level that’s maybe 4-6 to a city. Naturally some of those blogs are full of good content and are well trafficked, others… not so much. Still as an idea, it’s not a bad one, especially with local being so ‘hot’ right now. I’ll keep an eye on it.