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 for your help! Great, easy to follow tutorial for a newbie blogger!
Thank you sooooooooooo much. This was so easy!!! I couldn't do it without your help.
Alexis
bakingtodestress.blogspot.com
Great instructions but for WP.org – just not able ot do it yet from what I can tell all over the web. Soon I hope.
http://www.averageeverydaysanepsycho.com
Thank you so much for this. You put the steps so easy. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this. We couldn't figure out how to do it..
Thank you so so so much. Finally got my website verified 🙂 You are brilliant!!
Thank you so much. I couldn't for the life of me work out how to do it… XD
I had verified my blog once before, but just changed to my own domain name and could not for the life of me get it right this time. Thank you so very, very much for the Control F tip. You are THE BOMB-DIGGITY!!!!!
Thank you for this post!
thanks SO much for this detailed tutorial! I gave up a couple months ago and decided to google for help and found you!
Chioma
C's Evolution of Style
Did anybody have to do this in your MAC? I press CNTR F and nothing happens….help please? Thanks
I don't have a mac, but try command f or command g.
~Jamie
Thank you so much!!! You are a genius!!! command g worked, and when I searched < / head > and paste the new code right above it, it worked 🙂
Thanks for the tutorial… 😀
Worked like a charm! Thanks a bunch 🙂
I thought I would never see the day I'd be able to verify my blogger blog! Thank you! Great and simple to follow tutorial. Keep it up!
seriously thank you. i've tried so many different ways and your post is the ONLY solution that has worked.
Oh.my.goodness…. a BIG Thank You!! I attempted to do this when it first came out and gave up… I'm thrilled I found your post and was able to cross this puppy right off my "to do" list! Thanks again!!
Thanks! I just did it! I feel so legit!
Thankyou, it worked a treat first time with verifying my blogger blog to Pinterest, I put the line of code directly under the opening 'head' Yay!!
Thank you for this post! However, it took a while to find out how to verify on Wordpress. Go to "Tools" then "Available Tools". Pinterest verification is the last thing on the page!
BTW, do you remove the Meta tag after you are verified?