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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cool. thx! it's works great!
Thank you so much for this post! I was getting so frustrated trying to verify! I placed mine just before the closing head and it worked. Would not work just after the opening.
I am glad it worked for you! It is so weird how it works in different positions for different people in the head tag. If anybody knows why this is, feel free to chime in on the comments!
~Jamie
This worked perfectly thanks. I took the easy option and put it just below the header and had no touble. Thanks for taking the time to write this post.
Oh my goodness! I am so appreciative of this post. Thank you very much for posting this.
Laura
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Thanks so much! It was so easy once I had someone explaining it like you did! lol
Thank you so much for this!! So much easier when it has been explained so thoroughly 🙂
Just found you on Pinterest and this worked perfectly for me! Thank you so much. I put it directly under the < head > code and all looks well!
Thanks! It only worked for me when I put the pinterest code directly under the < head > code.
Sweet! Worked perfectly. Thank you!
I am going to feel like a total dumb-dumb when I post this…but what is the purpose in verifying a blog? I was going to complete this but it linked my blog to my Pinterest and I did not want to do that because my Pinterest is for personal use and not for the blog!
Thanks for any help 😀
It's just a matter of personal preference. If you'd like to drive a bit more traffic to your blog, it can't hurt to have the link on Pinterest.
I agree w/ Michele, it's really just for Brand/name recognition. It might bring a little more traffic over and help with SEO.
Thanks for stopping by!
~Jamie
Thank you for this
Thank you! Hadn't even thought about doing this before I saw this. Too easy to pass up. Thanks again!
Thank you! I just did it and it worked beautifully! 🙂
-Meesh 🙂
Great, thanks so much! can we remove the code after it's verified?
Hmm, I have no idea… If you try it, will you come back and let us know if it worked?
~Jamie
Thanks so much for this – I have tried and failed to manage this before 🙂
On the subject of No-Reply bloggers I have found that because I have my Google + profile attached to my blog blogger seems to switch me to a no-reply blogger every once in a while for no discernable reason. Then I have to go back and fix it again – grr!
Sarah @ A Cat-Like Curiosity
Thanks so much! i will repin 🙂
Thanks, it worked perfect.
awesome tutorial & it worked great! Thanks so much! 🙂
This worked and was very easy to follow. Thank you,
Thank you! I have tried several other tutorials without luck. I tried yours and immediately worked. Ahhh! Sharing this with all other bloggers I know! xo, Jenny