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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Thanks for sharing.. I’ve followed all of the step that you mentioned, and now i’m still awaiting confirmation from pinterest.. 😀
Thank you so much for your help! This is a great post!
Thank you so much for this step by step tutorial. It was easy to follow and I was able to verify my website quickly. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. 🙂
Thank You! I am not tech savvy, and this saved me a couple bucks from having to pay someone to do it for me!
Your post is still helping folks! Thanks so much – I needed to do this and could not figure it out. Your step-by-step helped me get it done. I'm so grateful!
Nice job. It worked great. You're one smart cookie 🙂
Thanks for all the help!
Thank you so much for sharing this! Definitely the easiest tutorial out there!
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Thank you, your instructions are great!
Perfect! Thanks for the photos with this tutorial!
Thank your for this tutorial, I really needed someone to walk me through this!
Even two years later this post is still actual – thanks for this very detailed help! 😀
Thank you so much! It worked.
I was able to verify my blogger blog on Pinterest. Thanks for writing this article.
Thank you so much for this, I was about to lose it 😉
Thank you so much for this tutorial and the one on no reply blogger, which I was, even though I don't know what that means.
Fantastic, thank you so much!!
Fab, quick easy and simple! Thank you!
You again?!? You're so helpful! Every time I try to figure out how to do something on Blogger, I wind up here. Thank you for sharing!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I have been deliberating over this for days and ready to pull my hair out 🙂 I'm sure it's going to be different for each person but I wound up placing the meta tag right after (head) and that worked instead of placing it right under. Great information and easy to follow.