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 for this tutorial! I was having such a difficult time figuring out how to verify my blog and this broke it down into super simple steps!!
Thanks for the help! I use blogger and was nervous to mess with the HTML code. But it worked perfectly!
Lovelogicandlaughter.com
thanx alot..worked….
http://123poopitout.blogspot.ca
Thanks for this tutorial! I have been trying to figure this out for days!
Yay! Thank you so much for this. I have been trying to figure this out on my own for a while now. I am kind of lame when it comes to these things, so thank you.
Thank you SOOOOOO much! I've been trying to do this and I couldn't figure out where to put the meta tag – you are awesome!
Carrie
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I'm now a follower! Would love it if you checked out my blog too 🙂
http://mystayathomemamalife.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much! Worked like a charm. 🙂
It didn't work. It does have it listed as a little 'world' symbol but it tells me it can't verify it…
THANK YOU so very much for this great tutorial! I'm now verified! 🙂
thank you so much! this was so helpful!
I seriously did a fist pump in the air when this worked, thank you so much for posting!
thank you! Didn't work, when I tried it my way – but your example was perfect!
Thanks for the tutorial, I was able to follow it and verify my blog on Pinterest!
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Thanks for the tutorial. I am on blogger and found a tutorial a while back to have my site verified and was able to get it to work. I switched to the new pinterest look today and noticed that it no longer showed that my site was verified. I decided to switch back to the old look and found your tutorial and was able to get it re-verified. I am nervous that once the new switch occurs, that my site will no longer be verified again. Have you noticed this too?
Thanks so so much! So simple and easy to follow! I've been racking my brains out trying to find a good tutorial – and I came across yours, thanks to http://www.codeitpretty.com! 😀
Thank you for your post. It worked great. I added a link in my blogpost to your tutorial.
Classroom Companion
Yippie! It FINALLY worked! I was using the "new look" and your update telling me to use the old look worked! Thanks! I'm your newest follower on GFC.
Thank you so much !!
Well I can't tell what I'm doing wrong, as no one else seems to be having the same issue as I am. I followed your directions exactly, but keep getting this error message:
Error parsing XML, line 653, column 5: The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag " < /meta >".
I copied the meta tag exactly from pinterest, tried adding the meta tag below the opening 'head' and tried again above the closing '/head' but still keep getting the same error message. Any ideas?