How To Verify Blogger Blog To Pinterest Profile

You must be aware that, Pinterest launched Verified Websites for Pinterest profiles or profile pages. This is much similar to Twitter Verified accounts. But unlike Twitter, where to verify your account, you must reach some criteria, verification on Pinterest profiles for the website does not have any such criteria. Anyone can verify website or blog. So everyone who has a blog or website can add their own website or blog to the Pinterest profile page.

Why verify your blog or website on Pinterest profile?

UPDATE: Please go to the UPDATED METHOD 'Using Meta-Tag; directly below.

This feature will allow you to tell your followers that you own the website and will also help you to showcase your website on your Pinterest profile.

But presently Pinterest only allows verification of website/blog through HTML file uploading given by Pinterest to your web server. This method is the standard method but BLOGGER blog owner does not have this option. Blogger blog owners cannot upload any file to either the blogger or to their custom domain.
Pinterest has promised to notify bloggers after this feature is enabled for blogger blog. Currently, only Tumblr blogs only have this facility.

But don't worry if you have a blogger blog. You can verify your blog even if you do not have the option to upload an HTML file to your blog or blog server.

Steps to verify your blogger blog on the Pinterest profile page:

• Log in to your Pinterest account and go to Settings.
• Click on 'Verify website' button next to the website option.
• You will be asked to download the HTML file for verification. 
• Download this file to your hard disk.

• Now log in to your blogger blog and go to Blogger dashboard >> Pages >> Click on 'New Page' button.
• Select the 'Blank Page' option.
• Here is an important trick. Open the HTML file that you have downloaded from Pinterest in Notepad.
• Copy all content of the notepad and paste the content as 'body' of the new page.
• Give the exact name of the HTML file to the 'Page Title'. See the image.

• Now save the new page and click on the 'Publish' button to publish the new page for verification.
• Now you should see the page into 'Home' of your blog and copy the URL of the new page. It should be something like this

http://www.toptrix.net/p/html-public-w3cdtd-xhtml-1.html

• If you try to verify this page, Pinterest will not find this page and cannot verify your blog.
• Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Settings >> Search Preferences >> Errors and Redirection >> Custom Redirects >> Edit. 
• Here you have to add the custom redirect to the verification page. So you have to redirect the URL expected by Pinterest to the page you have created. Observe the difference between the two URLs.

URL expected by Pinterest 

http://www.toptrix.net/pinterest-0dd66.html

The actual URL of the new page where the HTML file content is copied.

http://www.toptrix.net/p/html-public-w3cdtd-xhtml-1.html

Your addresses may be something different but the procedure is the same.

UPDATE: Note the difference: There is no p/ after your blog domain. The basic principle is, you have to forward the URL, where Pinterest tries to look the page to the URL where you have actually saved the page. So you have to forward 'URL expected by Pinterest' to 'Actual URL' as given above.

• So here do this:
• Enter the exact name of the HTML file into the 'From' field. This is very important, you have to copy the name of HTML file you have downloaded to your computer and put it into the 'From' field and a '/' without quotes before the file name as seen the image above.
• Enter the URL of the newly created page you have copied from 'Home' page of your blog WITHOUT the first part -in this case, I removed http://www.toptrix.net- in the 'From' field.
• Select the option 'permanent' and 'Save' the redirection.
• Save the settings and now follow the verification procedure as 'Pinterest Profile'.

You have now verified blogger blog on your Pinterest profile.

UPDATE: Pinterest has added a new and more easy way to verify your blogger blog. Instead of uploading the file to root of your domain, you just have to insert a 'Meta-Tag' to your blogger HTML template. This is very easy and can be done within a minute. You won't get any error. So here is an easy way.

1. After clicking on the verification button in your setting, when you get the option to 'Download HTML file' here is a new extra option, click on 'Can't upload a file? Verify with Meta Tag'.



2. Then it will show you a meta tag, you have to copy that meta tag and paste it into the blogger HTML template.

• Copy the tag and go to your blogger dashboard >> Template >> and click on 'Edit HTML' button. 

IMP: Backup your template, before you do any editing in HTML so that if something goes wrong, you can easily restore.

• Now find (CTRL+F) the  <head>  in your template and paste the 'Meta-tag' you have copied from Pinterest, just after the <head> and 'Save' the template.

3.  Now click on 'Click here to verify the process' link at Pinterest, and you will be greeted with a confirmation message.

I think, this new method is more easy and you should use this method. But when there was no such option at the start when Pinterest first launched the verification option.

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