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! IT WORKED 😀
Thank you so much for your step-by-step guide on how to verify your website on Pinterest!
I got this: Trouble verifying your domain. Please try again later. The only thing I can think of is that I wasn't able to revert my Pinterest page back to the old look to verify my blog. Oh, well, I guess I'll try again later. Thanks for the tutorial, though.
Awesome! This worked even years after you've posted this post 🙂 Thanks again! 😀
How do you get the "old look"?
Thanks for the tut!
This is SO helpful! Thank you so much! xo
thoughtsofglitter.blogspot.ca
Glad it still works Ayesha.
Thanks! I couldn't figure it out before!
Thank you for making the tutorial. It was of great help! Have a great day!
Yay! This blogpost is the gift that keeps on giving! For years! It just worked for me. Thank you so much! I've followed you on Pinterest & would be honored if you'd do the same! Gratitude from another crafty & often scattered mama!
xo,
Julia (pinterest.com/seizethedazzle)
http://www.seizethedazzle.com
FINALLY, I'm verified, thanks to YOU!! I'd tried this before and couldn't get it to work! When I tried again tonight I decided to search online for help, and yours was the first to pop up. Clear as day…thanks so much!!
Since it is now 2014 I wonder if there is a different way to add the meta tag. I have tried twice to add it to my template but mine does not show an expand view. There is no option for that.
The template now automatically shows the widgets. Try placing the code in a few different spots between the head tags. I can't test the method since I am already verified, but I do still hear from others that the method is working. Best of luck!
~Jamie
Thank you!
That was easy! Thank you Jamie!
THANK YOU! I had just about given up with I decided one last google search and that's it. You made it very easy! 🙂
wao, wonderful
Thank you!
Thank you for this! I'm relatively new to Pinterest, and the website verification was on my to-do list. Your article made it very quick and easy. 🙂
Thank you so much for this post! I found this from a google search and after reading a couple of tutorials, this one was definitely the clearest and most helpful. Much appreciated 🙂
Thank you!