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How To Verify Your Website On Pinterest [Video]

November 7, 2012 by Jan Kearney

Pinterest recently introduced the option to verify your website on your profile.   Pinterest is one the fastest growing social media platforms, and recent studies have shown that it drives more traffic and converts more sales than other well established social sites.

Pin all the things!

Follow me on Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/mlbojan/

As a business owner, website verification on Pinterest is useful because it shows on your profile that you are who you say you are.

Verify your website on Pinterest

A verified tick!

I recorded this video last week when I started to feel a bit snuffly.  A week on and no sign of not sounding like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards, I thought I would post it anyway!

How To Verify Your Website On Pinterest

Verifying your website on Pinterest transcription

Hi, it’s Jan at My Local Business Online and today I want to show you how to verify your website on Pinterest.

First of all you need to go to your Pinterest settings by clicking on the dropdown box. If you scroll down you’ll see where your website is listed. Click verify website.

This verification process is only available for top level domains at the moment. That’s dot co dot uk, dot com, dot net, dot org, those kind of straight to domains. So if you are a crafter for example with a shop on Etsy, eBay or Amazon, those large sites, you’re not able to do this at the moment with your shop site.

First of all click the verification button. Then download the verification file by clicking on it.

Download the file to somewhere you can find it again! That will be in documents, I’ll find it later. Now I am going to upload it to my web server, so I’ll pause this video while I log in and upload it.

If you’re on Cpanel, which is what I am, it’s easy to upload. Just log into your Cpanel and files and click upload and then choose the file name. That’s how quick it is.

If we whizz back now to Pinterest, it should just be a case of clicking here to complete the process. Ok, successfully verified, go to your profile, and you can see we’ve got a nice tick. How cool is that? Speak to you soon

Over to you…

Do you have a Pinterest account? Will you be verifying your website on Pinterest? 

Follow me on Pinterest – say hi and I will follow you back!

How To Verify Your Website On Pinterest [Video] by Jan Kearney
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About Jan Kearney

I believe that every business, no matter how small or how local can use the power of the web to gain more customers. I offer no bull coaching and mentoring so small business owners can strategically put the web to work for their business. I've been called a "compass" and a "navigator" and probably a few more names that aren't suitable for a profile!
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Comments

  1. Clive says

    November 7, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    Hi Jan
    great tip! I didn’t know about that as I have not looked at pinterest to much lately. It only took a minute to to do. 🙂

  2. Ginny Carter says

    November 8, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    This is on my ever growing to do list!

    • Jan Kearney says

      November 12, 2012 at 12:38 pm

      We should swap lists for a while, Ginny – you never know, a change is as good as a rest!

  3. Bonnie Gean says

    November 8, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    Jan,

    Oh my gosh, thank you for this post! I didn’t realize I had to click on that one link to download the file. I was over at Pinterest (before I found your message here) trying to figure out how to download that HTML file.

    Then I came here and watched your video and it “snapped” for me. My god.. talk about me doing things the hard way! LOL

    Great video – thanks for the help. I am now verified! Yay!

    – Bonnie

    • Jan Kearney says

      November 12, 2012 at 12:37 pm

      Hurrah! Glad the vid helped, Bonnie 🙂

  4. Carl Picot says

    November 12, 2012 at 1:25 am

    Hey Jan

    Thanks for the great tips – I really need to get on top of Pintrest – I never seem to get the time to suss it out – but you have shown us an easy way here 🙂

    I seem to loose you in the Social Media group these days.. How are you keeping ?

    cheers

    xxxxcarlxxxx

    • Jan Kearney says

      November 12, 2012 at 12:32 pm

      Hey Carl – busy busy as always 🙂 I do pop in the group and speak when I have something to say (when don’t I have an opinion?!) Glad you found the vid useful!

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