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! That was one of the first tutorials I've done that worked on the first try. Following on Bloglovin' and Twitter.
Meg @ ThePatchworkPaisley.com
I was having this problem and I googled and found your post! I am not tech savvy and am new to this whole blog thing so it was very helpful!
Never mind! I got it! Thanks! That was simple!
Under settings, I don't see anything about a website. How do I go back to the old version of pinterest?
Sweet! Thanks! It worked even with the new Pinterest layout.
Thanks! This was way better than the Pinterest help center.
Thanks for the tip! I just verified my blog on Pinterest.
Glad to know it is still working. Have you switched over to the new look of pinterest or are you still on the old look?
~Jamie
Fabulous, it worked perfectly. Thanks from a new blogger. =)
Thank you so much for showing how to do this. I was told by many people that I could not do this because I am on Blogger but thanks to your tutorial my site has been verified. Have a great week!
Great info! Thank you:)) T.
I found your blog by doing a search for this type of tutorial (yours is one of the few for blogger blogs). This tutorial ROCKS! I'm now following via GFC, bloglovin, and I've added you to my Google+ circles. =0)
Can't wait to see what other goodies you have here on your blog!
~Kim
http://www.2justByou.com
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I spent an hour trying to verify my site on Pinterest. I came across yours and it worked!!!! I am so new having a website hosted by blogger and I don't know any computer language. You made it very simple.
Now can you tell me how to get the buttons, not sure what there called, on my site that you can click on for facebook, pinterest etc.
Thank You! Such easy to follow steps, it worked perfectly the first time with no problems.
Katie
http://hecallsmegrace.blogspot.com/
How do you do this if you've already switched to the 'new' Pinterest? When I try to get the code to verify it just opens a new window with the same thing. 🙁
Thanks so much for posting this. i couldn't have done it without your help!
I tried to follow your instructions to get varified by pinterest. the meta tag would not paste. I could copy it and paste it into a word sheet ss that I could make it bigger and they I typed it in but my template still refused to take it. Do you know if it cant work with google blogspot? I have tried it 5 differet times and still doesn't work. HELP please.
THANK YOU so much! I have tried to do this over and over again and it's never worked. Every tutorial I've tried was so confusing. I finally gave up and just typed my blog address in my little "about me" section on Pinterest LOL. Now, it worked and looks like it should! I will definitely be mentioning this on my blog (www.mamaging.com) and linking back to you. Thanks again!
Fantastic- thanks so much! Pinning this to help others and spread the word about your great site!
Aubree
lookfeelbebest.blogspot.com
Really helpful tutorial, thank you so much!
Jesss xo
I was super happy that u made this walk-through!
thanks a bunch 🙂
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