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 so much! Now my website is Pinterest verified!
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After several times failed of trying to verify my blog with the html code, I found your guidance is simple, fast and worked out. So nice Mom…
It worked… It worked… always scared to mess with html, but today success thanks to you.
Desiree @ YourCraftyFriend
You ROCK! Thank you so much for the simple easy step by step. 🙂
I have been searching for ages how to do this and followed other posts but yours was the simplest and it worked!! Thank you so much 🙂 x
Thank you! Until your help I just couldn't do this! Now completed because of your help!
Thank you for this and the no-reply post! I didn't realize I was a no-reply blogger, thanks for the info.
Thank you 🙂 Worked like a charm!
Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial!!! I tried to verify my blog ages ago and gave up, but now with the new analytics feature being added to pinterest I needed to get the verification done. I'll be sharing this with all my bloggy friends 😉
Yay! It finally worked for me. I had a few errors….not sure why. First on a Apple computer and working on Safari…not sure if that makes a difference, but I do know that to search I had to use Command F, not Control F….so for any other mac users, you might want to try that. Then to get it to work in my HTML, I had to put it right before the /head tag (had to leave off the < when typing this, it was trying to read it as HTML! ugh!). When I tried it any where else (especially right under head as suggested), it was giving me an error about needing a /meta tag and wouldn't save for me. But regardless all works well now. Thanks SO much for sharing these tips. I have been working on getting this to work for days now. I refused to give up. So happy it is finally verified!!! I definitely shared this tip!!! Feel free to come share at my weekend link party too, if you want @ The Patriotic Pam! ;O) Hope to see you there!
Pam
I must be the only moron out there because I've tried this a million times and it still won't verify!! 🙁 I'm so bummed!!!
I'm wondering if it won't work because I'm still using a blogspot.com address… I don't want to pay for a domain name because this is free and I have a lot of other blogs I keep too… Does anyone think this may be my problem? My code looks different than yours too… (sigh). I think it's time for me to turn this off… 🙁
I was thinking the same thing yesterday! I also am using a blogspot.com address. On a whim last night I logged onto my laptop and thought I'd try this one more time. I opened the widget template to make sure my mete tag was still there and lo and behold…no tag, I know I saved it probably 6 different times in different places earlier. I went back to Pinterest to start over and the meta file I was getting then (the 'content' was a sting of numbers and letters)was different then what I was getting yesterday afternoon, it had 'pinterest' and something else I don't remember. I also noticed that when I tried yesterday that the meta tag box on pinterest, although the tag itself looked different from what she shows above, that string of numbers and letters was at the bottom, but i had no clue what it was. I put that new meta file in just under the < head> as the tute says above and it verified just fine. What's the difference? The only thing I can think of is I used a desktop running Windows XP the first time, the second I used a laptop running Windows 8.
Are you guys in the new or old "look" of Pinterest? I wonder if that has anything to do with it. (When I am in the new look, I've noticed my verified check mark is no longer there. Maybe they don't have all the bugs worked out yet…
~Jamie
Thank you. This post was very helpful.
Thank you so much for this great tutorial! Us visual learners appreciate the screen captures…however it doesn't seem to be working for me. I've placed the tag just below the < head > and just above the < /head > and even tried it just after another meta tag as someone commented above. I'll keep trying though!
I find it weird how most people seemed to have had no problem with this. I followed the instructions and did exactly what was said but the preview kept coming up as an error.
Finally I realized Pinterest had given me a code ending in " > apparently it needed to be "/>"
I switched the code and it was verified! So this was a Pinterest code error, if anyone else has an error problem you can ask if they have the "/>" at the end of the code 🙂
FrozenFairytale
I thought this may be my issue but no luck 🙁
I was having a really hard time getting this to work for me. I tried various things and still got an error message when previewing (which doesn't matter in this case, because my blog html was still fine.) However, when I used Pinterest to get a meta tag, they gave me the wrong one. They gave me one that said "pinterest-" and only 4 digits of the long code. I realized yours looked different and placed the long code from the first verify page into that section of the meta tag and it worked.
So maybe this will help others who may be having trouble.
I am glad you figured it out and came back to leave a comment. I had 2 people in a row say they couldn't get their blogs verified and I was worried maybe it had something to do with the “new look” of Pinterest. Since I have already verified my site, it won’t let me go back and fiddle with verification procedure. (Plus, I would hate to mess mine up and not be able to fix it.)
~Jamie
Doesn't work for me. 🙁 I've tried directly below the opening head tag as well as directly above the closing head tag, neither worked. I'm using a dynamic view if that matters. Something I've noticed… Your verification code is a different format than what they are handing out now.
I could not get it to work 🙁
I have been trying for 2 hours.
I tried putting below the head, at the bottom, above, nothing works!
Will try again later!
Thanks for the tutorial!
Cheryl
Crayons and Curls
Thank you! This worked beautifully!
Thanks for this article, super easy to follow and exactly what I was looking for.
You are a lifesaver! Thank you!