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!
YES! You are amazing – thank you so much!!!!
Thank you so much for this tutorial – it worked perfectly! Do you know how I can disconnet the Facebook icon that is next to my web link on my Pinterest page? It goes to my personal FB page and I would rather it not. Thanks again!!
If you look under settings on your Pinterest account and click on “log in w/ Facebook” under social networks, it will give you the option to disconnect your Facebook account. After you disconnect the wrong account you can re-ad the correct one. (I just realized my personal facebook account was still connected, so I am so glad you asked this question. I updated my facebook/ Pinterest account too.)
Good luck,
~Jamie
Thank you thank you thank you!
THANK YOU! So frustrated I couldn't verify… I knew there had to be a way for blogs 🙂
Thank you! I could not figure this out! xoxoxo
I actually found this on Pinterest and had no idea we could even do this, lol! Thanks for the tutorial, it worked perfectly 🙂
Thanks a billion!
Thank you so much for this helpful post!! It made the entire process a piece of cake! :*)
Thank you so much for the tutorial!! I'll be sourcing your blog tomorrow on my site: inspiredhoneybee.blogspot.com. Just trying to help out fellow bloggers and I thank you for supporting us!!
Debbie
Thank you so much! You have no idea how long I have been trying to figure that out! It worked! You are a life saver! Now, can you do one for how to put a pinterest button on your blog? I can't figure that one out either!
Thank you so much for this !
And I started following on google friends.
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Ellya
Thank you SOOOOO much for sharing this! I did it, it worked AND now I'm pinning it and sharing it! xoxo
Evey
Thanks for sharing!!! Just completed and just started following:)
Julie
http://www.thechirpingmoms.com
Thank you!!
This was SO helpful to me, thank you ! I will pin it and follow you on Pinterest as well. It felt great to follow the steps and have success with verifying my website. Thanks a lot.
This did not work for me… I get the 404 as well. I did what another commenter did and tried after the close-head but that did not work either.
I am wondering if it is because of what all is in my header?
I'm going to try a couple more sensible placements and see if I can get it to work….
Okay!!! I tried the 'common sense' idea and it worked!!…
I just wanted to share all of this since it can be different for different people. Luckily for me, I found another meta tag, and it was miiiiiiiiiiiiles above the close/head I just added this meta tag underneath the other meta tag. I'm verified! Thank you!!
Worked, Thanks. It kind of had me confused for a minute but I figured it out.
Hey Jamie-
Great instructions aka tut. I did everything you suggested following each step, however, I cannot find the head part of the code to install the Verify Website code. Can you please PLEASE help me. I so don't want to screw it up. HA! I would so appreciate it.
jenglamgirl@gmail.com
Thanks a bunch, jen
Hi, once you have gone into the html and checked the expanded widgets button, if you are on a laptop or regular pc, you should be able to press the control key and the f key at the same time and a search box will pop up. type in the word head and the computer should find 2 of them. Place your pinterest generated code between the 2. I put mine right above the closing head tag: /head. but someone else said it worked for them when they put it right after the opening head tag head.
Good Luck,
Jamie
Thanks a bunch for posting this information. Super helpful!!