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 for this great tutorial. I had been trying to verify my Pinterest with my blog for sometime and could not get it to work. This tutorial worked perfectly and was easy to follow.
This helped me immensely… thank you so much!!!
Hi Jamie, I traveled half the world twice, and even tried piggybacked a NASA trip to Mars looking for a humanely-understandable, newbie-workable tutorial on verifying my blog on Pinterest. You ought to open a website on Mars offering this tutorial – just in case, you know. Thank you so much.
Ha ha! I'm glad to know the method still works!
~Jamie
Thank you soooo much! Definitely going to share this post!
Thank you so much for this! I was so confused by the whole verification process, and even what it was for, but this seems to have worked!
Oh my gosh, I've been struggling with this for few days now. Thank you so much for this!!!
Ah! Thank you so much! This was great!
Just found this post on Pinterest. Thanks so much for the tutorial!! Just did it and it worked perfectly. This was also so simple compared to another tutorial that I had looked at which had approximately 90 million steps, lol. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks for this
Thank you!!!
There isn't anything under my settings that says anything about verification. 🙁
Thank you very much for this post! Still relevant almost a year later.
Thank you SO MANY MILLIONS! This was perfect for baby-stepping me through this 😀
Awesome! This worked Yay! LOL! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much!! I am just getting my blog going, and this was awesome!! 🙂
Thanks! It just took me a few attempts with moving it to different locations.
Easy breezy! Thank you so much for your help with this. Love your blog and excited to check out your Pinterest boards!
Awesome! It worked for me – thanks!!
I switched to the new pinterest and it won't let me switch back. And the verification looks messed up. How do I switch back. I don't have the little hover.
Nevermind, it worked, thanks for the tutorial! With the new pinterest.
thanks 😀