About Elaine Vigneault, the blogger

Elaine with a puppetHi, I’m Elaine.

I am a compulsive writer/diarist, an animal lover, and a curious person. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and another Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies. I am a vegan, atheist feminist who lives in Manhattan. Originally from a small town in California, I’ve also lived in Las Vegas, Nevada for seven years before moving to New York. I’ve visited Paris, London, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and lots of places in between.

I have worked in a variety of fields from a hair salon to a post-graduate dental school, including a short stint with a networking company. I’ve volunteered or worked with a variety of animal rescue organizations, environmental conservation groups, and a state women’s lobby. I have self-taught minimal hacking, cooking, and photography skills and varied, ever-expanding interests.

You can read a more detailed biography here if you like.

These are my web presences: Kiva profile, MySpace page, LinkedIn profile, FaceBook profile, Twitter page, Flickr account, YouTube account.

My contact email is: elaine @ elainevigneault dot com (remove the spaces and change the word ‘dot’ to a period).

About This Website, the blog

website screenshotThe website was started in 2003. The blog began on LiveJournal. I moved it to WordPress in November 2006. It’s not my first blog, but it’s still my best blog. My ideas and website have been in: Wired, ProBlogger, The Blog Herald, Lifehacker, Daily Kos, Salon, BlogHer, Feministe, PETA Files, and many other well known websites and blogs.

Website Traffic
As of August 2007, this site receives about 15,000 - 20,000 unique visitors and 30,000 - 40,000 pageviews per month. This site’s Google page rank is usually 5. The Alexa ranking is in the 275,000 range and the Technorati authority level is in the 300-400 range. A large percentage of my traffic comes from search engines like Google. The rest of my traffic comes from referring websites and direct hits.
Want proof? See my sitemeter stats >>

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Design
The design theme is a purchased theme called Revolution designed by Brian Gardner. I’ve modified it to suit my tastes and needs. My husband, Ed Miller (Noted Poker Authority), helped me with some of the modifications. He also performs regular maintenance on our blogs.

Advertising & Marketing
If you’d like to advertise on my blog, please do so through BlogHerAds or contact me by email with your offer. For the record, I prefer to be paid via paypal or direct deposit. If you would like to advertise on my feed, eventually you will be able to do so through FeedBurner.

No charge: I’m often happy to promote nonprofit organizations that align with my beliefs and interests, so please just ask.

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Link Exchanges
I don’t do link exchanges, so please don’t ask. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with link exchanges; they’re just often not relevant to me and my website. However, you can receive a free link from this blog by leaving a thought-provoking, relevant comment to any of my blog posts. Or you can link to my blog from your blog and get a trackback link.

Terms of Use
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