...and that keyword was a person's name, what would you suggest the best method of getting those blogs ranked would be?
Check out all the strategies and huge lists of all the different kinds of blogs/websites that are often good to use for brand management discussed in "Step 3" here:
A Basic Guide To Online Reputation Management | Confident Brand
TLDR:
Step 3. What You Can Do About It – “The Best Defense Is A Great Offense”
Exact Match Domains
Buying Domain Names That Include Your Keywords And Popular Neutral Phrases
Look Into Using A Google Plus Profile And Google Authorship
Business Directories (different tools you can use, things like using Google Alerts to automatically track your competition's business listings, etc)
Social Media Websites
Press Releases
Article Directories
Video Sharing Websites
Image Sharing Websites
Audio Sharing Websites
Presentation Sharing Websites
Document Sharing Websites
See If You Can Acquire A Wikipedia Page
Take Advantage Of Online Resume Websites
Post On Online Marketplaces
Post On Relevant Online Forums
Conduct Paid Advertising Campaigns
Post On Question and Answer Websites
Build Your Own Public Lists
Take Advantage of Content Curation Websites
Take Advantage Of “Tagging” On The Websites That Encourage It
Promote Your Brand By Hosting A Public Event
Keep Track of All Your Website URLs That You Develop and Promote Them Regularly
Leverage Pre-Existing Positive Website Content When You Can
You can use all those strategies/websites listed in the guide above to assist your efforts with this kind of thing. Diversify dat search visibility yo.
edit: For an individual's name, especially check out these 40 "online resume" sites:
http://www.confidentbrand.com/guide...ment#take-advantage-of-online-resume-websites