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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Wonderfully explicit directions, and so easy to follow. Thanks for the tutorial, I've been looking at that Pinterest verification button and trying to figure out what they were talking about since it first showed up.
Unfortunately I can't verify my blog, even though I own the domain, it keeps telling me that it's a 404 error and the server can't find my blog, but I will keep trying, after they let me back in again, lol.
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
Yay! Thanks for sharing. I didn't know how to do this in Blogger, and this worked perfectly!
Thank you so much for this!!!
would love it if you could share this on my link party @ http://www.serenityyou.com
Natasha xx
Thanks so much! I would never have figured this out on my own! I am a new follower!
Thank you so much! I've been wanting to do this but didn't know how!
Thanks so much for this – I had no idea that was how to do it for Blogger (would be nice if they actually told people who don't know much about coding that!). Got all verified now! Thanks for linking this to Craftastic Monday at Sew Can Do:)
Thanks…I didn't even know what that meant until I saw your post…I'm a blogger and it worked great! Everyone's gonna think I really know what I'm doing…it'll just be our secret! Thanks for the link!!!
Yay! Thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you!
THANKS!!! 🙂
Thank you – did both of my blogs. Very much appreciated your post. Came over from Brenda's Cozy Inspiration.
Joy
You are amazing!! Took me maybe 2 minutes & I'm now verified! Thank you so much!! Definitely will be sharing this post! 🙂
thank you so much! it worked smoothly 😀
I have to figure out how to do this with Wordpress! I've seen them asking but don't know where to add. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers about Bo, some day's we think this is the "day", and then he perks up the next. For the last two days he's been taking short walks, like 4 houses up and back. It's like being on a roller coaster. Thanks for always sharing your creative inspiration with Sunday's Best!
Thanks a million! I did it and couldn't have done it without you!!
Thank you!!! This is awesome. First time visiting- Nancy~
Feel free to link on my blog- http://atozebracelebrations.com/2012/12/link-party.html
Thanks so much, I tried to do this the other day unsuccessfully, You Rock 🙂
Thank you! I couldn't figure this out!
Thank you for this! I tried to verify a few weeks ago, and couldn't because I'm on blogger, so Thank you! Also, I don't know what happened with the no-reply blogger thing, but I wasn't a no reply blogger, and recently a friend told me that I was. Blogger changed it on me. It is fixed now, but I think people don't realize that they are no reply bloggers, because they once weren't. 🙂 Pinning this post, have a great day!