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How to Verify Your Blog on Pinterest

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how to verify your blog on pinterest


how to verify your blog on pinterestIs your blog verified on Pinterest? Do you know how to verify your blog on Pinterest? If it is already verified, you’ll see that glorious check mark as shown above. Verifying your site on Pinterest is easy!

Here’s how to do it:

Head to your profile and click the pencil icon on the bottom right side of your profile info. This will bring up your edit profile screen. At the bottom, you’ll see your website. There will be a box next to your website that says “verify your website”. Click that and you’ll be on your way.

Don’t try to do it the easy way. Click the alternative method as shown below:
verify website with pinterestVerifying with a meta tag is the easiest way to verify your blog on Pinterest. When you click the red text that the arrow above is pointing to, you’ll be given a piece of HTML code that looks like this:

So take that code, copy it and leave the window open. Then head over to your Blogger dashboard and edit HTML:

WordPress users, since all themes are different, this might be a little more complicated. Most themes have a header file. The easiest way to find it is to do a “find” in your browser and search for /head. Once you come across a file with that, you’re in the right place. If you’re using a Genesis theme, use the Simple Hooks plugin to easily place the code in the right spot.

verify pinterest
Now don’t freak out. You’re going to see a LOT of HTML code at this point. You’re going to want to look for the closing “head” tag as show below:
screenshotPaste the code just before the closing “head” tag. Then head back to your Pinterest window and click the red “complete verification” button to finish the process.
complete verificationThat should do it! Now go to your profile and look for that magic verified check mark! Now anyone viewing your Pinterest profile can be assured that you are truly the authorized owner of the website listed in your profile.


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Comments

  1. Rachel says

    May 21, 2013 at 7:19 pm

    Thank you for this, Zack!
    I had tried to do this in the past, and failed.
    I love all of your blogging advice!

    floral&fudge

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      May 21, 2013 at 8:14 pm

      No problem! Glad it helped!

      Reply
  2. Amber Wilkerson says

    July 3, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    Thanks so much for this! It really helped me!!! Im gunna be following your blog now via email, bloglovin’ twitter, facebook & pinterest!

    Here’s mine if you wanna follow back – http://todayscommoncents.blogspot.com

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      July 3, 2013 at 6:43 pm

      Sweet! Glad it helped! 😀

      Reply
  3. Angely Martinez says

    July 7, 2013 at 6:51 am

    Dear Zack:

    My name is Angely Martinez and I am also a blogger. I came upon your post about how to verify your blog on Pinterest. Although I tried the instructions from your post, it does not seem to be working for me. What else would you advice me to do?

    Thanks,
    Angely

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      July 7, 2013 at 4:12 pm

      Hmm, I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work. Can you provide some more details? Did it allow you to go through the whole process and the check-mark simply didn’t appear?

      Reply
      • Angely Martinez says

        July 9, 2013 at 12:55 am

        I tried it again yesterday and it worked! Thanks!

        Reply
        • Zack lu says

          July 9, 2013 at 2:58 am

          Yay good to hear!

          Reply
  4. Kelli Martinelli says

    August 2, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    well hell, you were a good find today. thanks!

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      August 2, 2013 at 8:13 pm

      Ha! Glad to be here!

      Reply
  5. Sandie says

    August 8, 2013 at 5:22 pm

    Awesome! Thanks a lot for the tutorial!

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      August 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm

      No problem! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Rachel says

    August 25, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    hi there,

    I can’t find my tag!! why would it be missing?

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      August 25, 2013 at 10:36 pm

      Do you see the “verify with meta tag” text as shown in the picture in the post?

      Reply
  7. Cindy {crazylou} says

    August 30, 2013 at 8:05 pm

    I’m stuck! I’ve tried several things and I still get this message: Error parsing XML, line 638, column 4: The value of attribute “content” associated with an element type “meta” must not contain the ‘<' character.

    Can you help?

    Thanks,
    Cindy @ Crazylou

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      August 30, 2013 at 9:00 pm

      I can take a look at the code that you are trying to paste. Get the code from Pinterest and shoot me an email (don’t want the code here in public) so I can take a look at it.

      Reply
      • Cindy {crazylou} says

        September 5, 2013 at 7:33 am

        Thank you so much for your help Zack!! What you sent worked perfectly! I can’t wait to see the analytics from Pinterest!!

        Reply
        • Zack lu says

          September 5, 2013 at 8:15 am

          Awesome! Glad we got it worked out!

          Reply
  8. Joni says

    September 25, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    I followed your instructions and it removed all of my pictures from my blog. Any idea how I can get them back?

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      September 25, 2013 at 2:59 pm

      Oh no! No idea why that would happen. The first thing I would do is remove the code that you placed. Hopefully that gets your images back. Before you do that, you can take a screenshot of the code and where it is placed and email it to me. I’ll try and see if I notice anything.

      Reply
  9. Antonia says

    November 17, 2013 at 6:20 am

    Thanks Zack, I did it !!! I cannot believe I actually managed to do that! 🙂 Have a great Sunday evening!

    Reply
  10. Katie says

    June 17, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Worked for me Zack!! Thanks for the easy to follow tutorial!! 🙂

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      June 17, 2014 at 3:37 pm

      Yay! No prob, glad it worked!

      Reply

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