Pinterest Verification Added to Webmaster Tools
Lots of you have been asking about website verification for Pinterest — the process that tells Pinterest that you own the website listed in your profile. Once your site is verified, your blog’s URL appears on your profile and in search results alongside the nifty little “Verified!” checkmark.
We’ve now added Pinterest to the list of webmaster tools we support. Verifying your blog with Pinterest is as easy as cutting and pasting a single line of code and hitting “save.”
(There I am, all verified. Don’t I look like a power user?)
If the idea of having to deal with code makes your nervous, don’t worry; our simple instructions tell you exactly what to put where. In less than a minute, you can have a checkmark of your very own, letting your followers know that you’re a trusted source of finding awesome stuff on the internet.
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 at 4:00 pm. Filed in New Features.
Tags: Pinterest, Verification, Webmaster Tools
Jan 9th at 4:08 pm
Hooray for Pintrest!
Jan 9th at 4:11 pm
Wow! Awesome stuff! Wow!
Jan 9th at 4:12 pm
Hooray, WP!
Jan 9th at 4:18 pm
Mahalo! You just made my humpday happy now that I’ve been able to verify my website with Pinterest. Yay!
Jan 9th at 4:36 pm
Hmmm, just tried it and got this: “Right now, we can only verify top-level domains. We hope to offer more options soon. Click here for more information”.
Jan 9th at 5:12 pm
Barbara, we just checked with Pinterest, and they only support top-level domains right now, so you can only verify a custom domain. I’ve updated the post accordingly.
Jan 9th at 10:04 pm
Actually, scratch that – it also works with xxxx.wordpress.com domains. Can you give it another try?
Jan 9th at 4:39 pm
Reblogged this on tinprinting.
Jan 9th at 4:40 pm
Wow thank you. I just saw the pinterest site verification and I thought it can’t be applied in wp.com. Now it’s finally here. Great work!
Jan 9th at 4:48 pm
Thanks! This was much needed.
Jan 9th at 4:55 pm
done
Thans
Johnny x
Jan 9th at 4:57 pm
Have added it to our blog, thanks
Jan 9th at 5:03 pm
Thank you for the clear and simple instructions. Easy!
Jan 9th at 5:16 pm
Done! Very simple to follow instructions. Great quick response to Pinterest feature – thanks
Jan 9th at 5:22 pm
I’ve been answering question on the support forums exactly this Pinterest business site verification issue for awhile now. It’s good to see that the support documentation has been updated. Thanks so much for doing that.
Jan 9th at 9:32 pm
You’re very welcome! Thanks for all your work in the forums.
Jan 9th at 5:26 pm
Thank you!!!!
Jan 9th at 5:28 pm
Reblogged this on Spencer Wade's Blog.
Jan 9th at 5:52 pm
Thanks, I’ll give this a try. I’m proud of my site and my Pinterest page.
Jan 9th at 6:03 pm
This is AWESOME and the directions were so easy!! Thank you so much!!
Jan 9th at 6:22 pm
Wow! I’m going to have to take advantage of this with my .net
Thanks!
Jan 9th at 6:25 pm
Gracias y Feliz Ano Nuevo! I especially appreciate the instructions.
Jan 9th at 6:37 pm
Thank you for this exciting news. When I am in my WordPress Tools Available page, I do not see any “Pinterest Site Verification field” OR “Website Verification Services header”, please help point me in the right way! Thanks!
Jan 9th at 9:35 pm
It’s not under it’s own header; it’s jus part of the Website Verification Services section of the page – do you not see anything that looks like the screen shot in the instructions?
Jan 10th at 6:30 am
Viewing your account, it believe I can deduce that you’re viewing the dashboard of a self–hosted site. When viewing your site home page, does the footer say “Blog at WordPress.com”? (If not, you’re self–hosted.)
Jan 9th at 6:59 pm
Thank you!
Jan 9th at 7:01 pm
is this eventually going to be updated for self-hosted (WordPress.org) blogs as well?
Jan 9th at 9:37 pm
If you’re self-hosted, then you have your own domain and have access to your servers, so you can verify the traditional way (uploading a file) – here are the Pinterest instructions: https://support.pinterest.com/entries/22217383 .
Jan 9th at 7:05 pm
Reblogged this on Feathernet and commented:
nice work.. pinterest taking over..
Jan 9th at 7:09 pm
Explain what you mean by a custom domain.
Jan 9th at 9:39 pm
A domain that you’ve purchased, as opposed to the xxx.wordpress.com domain you get for free — looks like you have one! However, you can use a wordpress.com domain to verify.
Jan 9th at 7:17 pm
Cool. Thank you
Jan 9th at 7:38 pm
That’s brilliant! I was just trying to do this the other day with little success……. It’s worked a treat now! Many thanks
Jan 9th at 7:45 pm
Awesome and thanks for the instructions!
Jan 9th at 7:58 pm
thanks for this option…
however i think giving option to add Our GPlus Profile link with our website is more useful. so that in search people can see author details…more power user.
thank you!
Jan 9th at 8:03 pm
I don’t understand the concept. What does verification mean and why do I want it. Perhaps another post to your blog would explain it.
Jan 9th at 9:41 pm
For some websites, verifying gives you to more tools; on Pinterest, it allows you to have your domain listed on your profile page, with the checkmark. Here’s Pinterest’s announcement: http://blog.pinterest.com/post/34315137913/verifying-your-website
Jan 9th at 8:04 pm
Thank you! That was easy. I couldn’t figure it out before.
Jan 9th at 8:08 pm
Reblogged this on Ich sag mal.
Jan 9th at 8:11 pm
One tine detail- it loks like, in the instructions, that the meta tag is included in the bold/copy portion. Do not include the “” – then it works a charm.
Jan 9th at 8:17 pm
Is it really needed!
Jan 9th at 8:32 pm
does that include facebook and twitter users / ? / they use web/logs AKA blogs or v/logs / ? /
Jan 9th at 8:57 pm
Yeah!!
Carrie Craig
Jan 9th at 8:57 pm
This is awesome! Thanks for the share!
Jan 9th at 9:04 pm
I’m more interested in Springpad than pinterest.
Jan 9th at 9:20 pm
Michelle, you obviously have a sense of humour that doesn’t exclude sending yourself up. You should be an Aussie, mate!
Does having my WordPress.com blog redirected (only) to my own domain count?
Jan 9th at 9:43 pm
If you own the domain and you have access to the webmaster tools on your .com dashboard, you should be good to go.
Jan 9th at 9:20 pm
Awesome! Thanks for adding Pinterest!
Jan 9th at 10:04 pm
Thank you, muchly!!!!!!!
Jan 9th at 10:21 pm
I have the latest version of WordPress installed, but for some reason, there is no Website Verification Services header in my list of Available Tools. Only Press This, and Categories and Tags Converter. Please help?
Jan 9th at 10:31 pm
If you’re self-hosted (as opposed to hosted on WordPress.com), then you have your own domain and have access to your servers, so you can verify the traditional way (uploading a file) – here are the Pinterest instructions: https://support.pinterest.com/entries/22217383 .
Jan 9th at 10:31 pm
I’m confused. Same as what someone else posted. When I am in WordPress Tools Available page, I do not see any “Pinterest Site Verification field” OR “Website Verification Services header” either. I only see “Press this” and “Categories and Tags Converter” under available tools. Then there are toolbar options under tools to import/export.
Jan 10th at 1:53 pm
It sounds like your blog is not hosted on WordPress.com. We will be releasing this as part of the Jetpack plugin shortly (http://jetpack.me) and then you’ll be able to use it on your own self-hosted WordPress.org blog.
Jan 9th at 10:48 pm
Reblogged this on The Praxis Share.
Jan 9th at 11:04 pm
I saw this last night and set it up then– easy and awesome. Thank you!!
Jan 9th at 11:06 pm
Excellent! Thank you!
Jan 9th at 11:15 pm
thank you
Jan 10th at 12:21 am
Thank You! Brilliant!
Jan 10th at 1:14 am
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Jan 10th at 1:36 am
Love it! Look forward to getting home to my computer then will connect the dots :]
Jan 10th at 1:48 am
WE CAN HAS GOOGLE+?
Jan 10th at 1:51 am
Thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out how to get verified for the past week & the confusion was driving me crazy!
Jan 10th at 1:52 am
THANK YOU! I could not figure out to do this and you made it easy enough for me, so I know anybody can do it! lol
Jan 10th at 3:06 am
Reblogged this on allcelebritiesworld's Blog.
Jan 10th at 3:18 am
My site is self-hosted with WordPress.org. I tried following the Pinterest instructions, but they aren’t as clear as yours. I’m afraid I don’t know how to do that whole download to root file thing. Do you suppose that WP.org will ever make the process as easy as the WP.com one?
Jan 10th at 1:58 pm
We will be releasing this as part of the Jetpack plugin shortly (http://jetpack.me) and then you’ll be able to use it on your own self-hosted WordPress.org blog.
Jan 10th at 3:36 am
Thanks michelle w.
I’ve been wanting to do that and couldn’t figure it out!! Now, I did it 
Thank you so much!!!!
Jan 10th at 4:03 am
Finallyyy, thankss!
Jan 10th at 5:55 am
Reblogged this on aarfrescue.
Jan 10th at 8:38 am
Great stuff Michelle! It took me under a minute to verify my site. You are just too excellent for words! Cheers mate!
Jan 10th at 8:44 am
Pinterest? Why not Tumblr? Hmmm… Either way… It’s good news for some
Jan 10th at 9:05 am
This is AWESOME…………….
Jan 10th at 10:58 am
Awesome ! Thank you for this update !
Jan 10th at 11:06 am
Reblogged this on pavankumars.
Jan 10th at 1:29 pm
Reblogged this on Sewfrench and commented:
Have you verified your WordPress account with your Pinterest account? It is not as hard as it seems. Plus you get this nifty little checkmark that not everyone has!
Jan 10th at 1:38 pm
I want to have a “Pin It” button on my blog. I have completed the verification process for pintrest. Could you help?
Jan 10th at 2:32 pm
The verification process only gives you the benefits listed (URL on profile, checkmark) — adding a button to your blog is a separate process. To do it, head to Settings –> Sharing. There, you can add all kinds of sharing buttons to your pages and posts, like Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, or Reddit.
Jan 10th at 2:06 pm
@michelle w. – tried to verify again early this morning with the same result, tried again just now, still get this message: “Right now, we can only verify top-level domains. We hope to offer more options soon. Click here for more information.”
Jan 11th at 1:43 am
Barbara, I just took a look at your site, and it doesn’t look like you’ve actually got a Pinterest verification code saved on the Webmaster Tools page. Were you able to complete this step?
Jan 12th at 12:01 am
No, when I click to verify my email on Pinterest’s site, that’s when I get the message that I only top level sites could be verified… Thanks for your help on this!
Jan 13th at 4:53 am
Unfortunately, it sounds like the issue is on Pinterest’s end (unless there’s a chance that the email you use at Pinterest is different from the one associated with your account here).
Jan 10th at 3:55 pm
Thanks for helping us with this step and showing us how it’s done. Each new platform added out there means there’s more to be done.
Jan 10th at 6:18 pm
HURRAY!!!! I just did it and it was sooo simple.
Jan 10th at 9:50 pm
Reblogged this on Enchanted Seashells…Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife and commented:
Has everyone seen this?
Jan 11th at 8:10 am
This is new for me, thank you
Jan 11th at 9:14 am
Mirroring everyone else, thanks for doing this and for the clear instructions!
Jan 11th at 5:15 pm
Thank you! I loved the simple instructions!
Jan 12th at 2:47 am
thanks for the heads up!
Jan 12th at 5:29 pm
Yay! Done! you guys are the best. xx
Jan 13th at 12:48 pm
perfect and so simple! That’s why I love WordPress! Thank you!
Jan 14th at 3:02 am
Pinterest is something new for me …, thank you very much !
Jan 14th at 5:14 am
Good News