I had a positive response from changing my Facebook profile picture to one of Anna. I had 27 "likes" and 5 of my friends actually put Anna's photo and info on their profiles as well. Who knows how many more people learned about Anna's story because of one simple gesture. Imagine if we all did it. Anna might go viral! Anyway, it gave me a few new ideas.
1. If you no one has already, I would like to suggest making a profile for Anna on MyLife. If you have a paid membership you can find out who has performed a Google search on Anna. Sometimes you get a name, sex, location, other times, just age, sex and location. I know that there would be many searches by us sleuths, but maybe it would expose others.
2. Footnote.com allows you to make an entry on any person, living or not, that is fully searchable in Google. This isn't like a message board. This entry becomes part of their database and has the potential of reaching millions of current and future researchers.
3. Google's offers an analytic product to use with your website and blog. It is actually a tool to assist in SEO. It isn't designed give much information other than the IP address and of course location. Another great tool is Google keyword searches. You can see what keyword(s) or search term(s) were used to find a particular subject.
4. I think that MySpace allows tracking (you have to insert some code into the html --super easy!) It will not give any historical data, but would allow you to monitor it from now on. Facebook doesn't offer tracking and all the sites that claim their application can provide are scams, spam or phishing. I think the capability is on the horizon though, probably from the developers at betterfacebook.com or Firefox's Grease Monkey App.
5. Facebook is an important tool, as evidenced by the recent events in Egypt. FB also offers advertising at some of the lowest CCP and CPI around. I mention this because it is possible to create a low-cost ad campaign that would target very very very specific demographics . You could, for example, place a photo of GB with an ad that says "do you know me?" or "Unsolved Mystery" "Help solve a mystery", "Is my name George Brody?" or better yet, "reward" ha ha. Then you set filters. Say that we want this ad to appear to males between the ages of 45-50, that list San Francisco as his hometown and has numerology as an interest. As you add each filter FB automatically updates to how many people on FB fit that criteria. You can then add or remove restrictions based on that number. If you were looking for Anna, you might say you wanted to target females, between 44 and 46 ... maybe adoption or adopted as an interest. I can't remember if you can add a keyword filter ... but if that is possible you might want to add the word "Eifee." I would probably filter to include PI's, retired detectives, people who list, as their employer, FBI, SFPD, SMPD, any local media. Who knows, maybe the ad will pique the interest of someone who with connections or resources. This would apply to all of the key players. Hopefully, the ad would reach people that might have information. I would recommend choosing cost per click over cost per impression even though CCI rates are lower. This is why. It is the only way to know for certain that someone clicked through the ad to get to your landing page. Cost per impression just means that the ad appeared somewhere on the page of people who fit the bill -- they may have seen it, maybe not! Another reason is that a lot of people wouldn't click on an ad even if it featured their own picture. They might be inclined, however, to "Google" whatever was in the ad text and that would lead them to an Anna site, YouTube video, Amazon etc, WS, etc. Also, FB works with Google Analytics also to provide information from your ad campaign as previously described for free! You can set a budget for each ad, which is great because the advertising is based on what you can afford and you don't an unhappy surprise when you get the bill.
I would like to run some ads when we get out income tax refund!!