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. Your instructions made it so simple. laurie
Awesome! I just did it, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Jessica
Thank you for posting this! I'm brain dead when it comes to HTML and need all the help I can get! 🙂
So helpful! Thank you so much!
I just repinned for others to see!
Thank you for this!!So easy, and done!
Nancy
Oh. My. Soul. I have spent so much time trying to do this. Your tutorial was the best ever…I have G+ your post. Will be pinning it now!! THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you so much! That was incredibly easy! Thank you, thank you!
Thank You!! You made it so easy with your instructions!
That was amazing! I have been trying to figure out how to verify my blog for awhile now. Thank you, thank you! This was so wasy!
Thanks! I had wanted to do this but was too impatient to figure it out on my own. Thanks for the clear directions.
You ROCK! I pinned you! I've been waiting for this to work!!
Becky B.
http://www.organizingmadefun.com
Organizing Made Fun
xoxo!!! I consider myself somewhat tech savvy but had no idea how to deal with blogger verification for pinterest! many many hugs and happy holidays!
hugs! Kim @ Party Frosting!
This was wonderful – clear, easy-to-follow, a great tutorial. Thank you so much!
btw, I believe I AM a nofollow blogger because I have Google+ linked to my profile. I've yet to find a way to keep G+ and get rid of the nofollow. But then, until 5 minutes ago, I didn't think I could verify a Blogger blog on Pinterest either!
Thanks again!
I wondered why there seemed to be such a big increase in the no-reply commenters, it must be google plus.
~Jamie
Hi, thank you, its works.. i follow you on pinterest! =)
amalzahrah.blogspot.com
Thank you! That HTML stuff is foriegn to me. It worked! I pinned this post to my blogging tips board, hopefully this helps spread the word. Again, thank you so much for the time you put into sharing this!
Thank you for the tutorial! You did a fabulous job making it concise, user-friendly, and very helpful!
Jessica @ A Humble Creation
Thanks so much — I never in a million years would have figured that out my own! I appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this post. I was trying to do this the other day and out of the blue my mom sends me a facebook link and that's how I found this!
Thank you very very much! I've pinned and tweeted your post. I will also follow you on Facebook and share there as well. You rock!!
ugh, I can't get it to work "Could not find the meta tag from step 1" but I know it's there…any ideas?!?