How to Verify Your Blogger Blog on Pinterest
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Have you noticed you can now verify your website on Pinterest?
Verifying your website on Pinterest is a good for bloggers. Once verified, Pinterest will prominently display the blog web address, which should help bloggers engage with others and “brand” their page. (By increasing our credibility and hopefully traffic too.) It is also excellent for SEO since it will give you a valuable link back from Pinterest.
The verifiacation feature has actually been available for about a month now, but Bloggers on the Blogger platform haven’t been able verify their website because we can’t upload files to our server. (Or at least we couldn’t do it without some serious tech savviness…)
Pinterest has now made it possible for those of us on the blogger platform to easily verify our websites using an HTML Meta Tag! Yea!
It’s a fairly simple process, and I will walk you through it (to the best of my ability) with a few screen shots…
Get the tutorial after the jump…
*** Update! Make sure you are in the “old look” of Pinterest when you start this, for some reason the code generated when you are in the “new look” is causing some people problems…***
Log in to your Pinterest account and go to settings:
Scroll down to Verify Website and click the button.
On the next page you will have the option to download an HTML file or to Verify with an HTML Meta Tag.
Click the option to verify with a Meta Tag. You will see the following:
Select and copy your meta tag. (It is the code in the gray box.)
Log in to blogger and go to “Template” and select Edit HTML.
You will see a warning message, click proceed.
Click the button to expand widget templates.
(Before making any changes to your HTML code, always make a copy. There is a back up restore button on the Template page, click it to download your backup copy and save it somewhere safe.)
Hit CNRL F and search for the word ” head “.
You should find two – the opening head tag: <head> and the closing head tag: </head>
Your Pinterest generated code needs to go somewhere in between these 2 tags
Paste the Meta Tag info below the opening HEAD tag. <head> (But above the closing </head> tag.)
A few commenters have mentioned the verification only worked for them when they put the code directly below the opening head tag, so be sure to put the Pinterest generated code to right below the opening head tag. (I think it must depend on what other coding “stuff” you have in this area…)
Test your changes to make sure you didn’t mess up your blog. To do this, click preview and make sure it loads properly. Then click save template.
Head back over to Pinterest and click the click here button for Pinterest to verify your site.
That is it, if it worked, you are verified! Head back to your main page to check it out!
Click this link for the tutorial: Check your settings!
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Thanks! I had figured this out on my own and tried it and I got this error message and it won't let me save the changes: More than one widget was found with id: HTML9. Widget IDs should be unique.
So then I followed your instructions step by step and got the same message.
Any tips? Thanks! susie cafescrapper at gmail.com
Susie, I don't know what the problem could be. I seems like you might have some sort of duplicate code in your template. Use the cntrl f function and search the template for portions of your meta tag info. See if there is something similar already there. You can try to submit a pinterest trouble ticket, but they may not help… If you ever figure it out, will you come back and share your results?
~Jamie
BTW, your email settings are set to no-reply….
Thank you! Worked like a charm. Although I didn't think the ctrl f was working (thought it would appear on the top of my screen) until I figured out it appeared at the bottom of my screen. tricky tricky.
Laura… Your email is set to no-reply…
I'm using Google chrome, what browser are you using. Just curious if different browsers put the search function in different places…
~Jamie
YAY! What a great tutorial! Now I need some instructions for WordPress! 🙂
Thank you! I've been wondering how to do this. I'd love to have you link this us to Titus 2 Tuesday this week on Cornerstone Confessions.. I hope to see you there.
Kathy
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I have been trying to do this for weeks and just gave up. I was praying I wouldn't mess up seeing how I just got a new blog make-over and I had a designer do it!
I am having a blog social hop on Saturday and I would love for you to hop over and link up! Stop over and grab a button.
Have a crazy beautiful day!
Thanks, but it didn't work by me. Might be that I have a much too safe computer who doesn't let me add some gadgets. When I find out why, I'll tell you, promise 😉
Thanks this is awesome, pinning this!
Thanks so much! I was actually able to do it! Great instructions!!!! 🙂
Awesome, thank you!
Wow, who knew! Very cool! I'm glad I found this. 🙂
Thank you!!! I tried doing this a week or two ago and couldn't. 🙂
Elena
acasarella.net
Worked without a hitch! Thank you so much!
It worked! Wahoo! Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this. This is the first I've heard of connecting and verifying your blog with pinterest.
awesome! it worked!
Such a helpful tip!! Thanks so much for sharing with us! Gonna go check this out now!
Thank you so much!
Great tip…I wish I could figure it out in Wordpress! XO, Aimee
Me too!!!
Thanks for this – worked perfectly!
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I tried to verify when it first came out, but couldn't do it because I'm also on blogger. I'm so happy you wrote this walk-thru!