Pinterest has solidified its dominance as a great alternative for more traffic to your website. As this becomes another tool to market your business, you still have to beware of the spammers popping up. With the popularity of Pinterest, we now have to beware of spam photos or possible viruses.
Now, Pinterest instituted a new option where you can now add your URL directly to your profile to verity that the site is yours.
If you are like me, I am not that tech savvy and telling me to upload something to my server is like telling me to create something in Photoshop without the software downloaded. Today, I want to share how I did it if you run a Self-hosted website via WordPress.
1. Go to your Pinterest page and click on “settings”. Scroll down till you see your website and click on “Verify website”.
2. Click “Download the HTML Verification File.” Download the file and leave it on your desktop you can find it easily.
3. Log into your Cpanel and click on “File Manager”.
4. Click on File manager and select “Web Root” and click “Go”.
5. In the File manager page, click “Upload” and find the Pinterest file on your desktop and click upload.
6. Click upload, find the file you downloaded from Pinterest and upload the file to your server.
Verified!
That’s it! Now you can go back to your Pinterest page to see that your website is now verified.
Question: Have you verified your site?
Now, Pinterest instituted a new option where you can now add your URL directly to your profile to verity that the site is yours.
If you are like me, I am not that tech savvy and telling me to upload something to my server is like telling me to create something in Photoshop without the software downloaded. Today, I want to share how I did it if you run a Self-hosted website via WordPress.
1. Go to your Pinterest page and click on “settings”. Scroll down till you see your website and click on “Verify website”.
2. Click “Download the HTML Verification File.” Download the file and leave it on your desktop you can find it easily.
3. Log into your Cpanel and click on “File Manager”.
4. Click on File manager and select “Web Root” and click “Go”.
5. In the File manager page, click “Upload” and find the Pinterest file on your desktop and click upload.
6. Click upload, find the file you downloaded from Pinterest and upload the file to your server.
Verified!
That’s it! Now you can go back to your Pinterest page to see that your website is now verified.
Question: Have you verified your site?
Lisa
Sonia, I LOVE how you showed us how with WordPress – CPanel is not my favorite place to be. The place always makes me nervous.
I did verify my other “retail” sites with help from StoresOnline tech. It took them a while. I haven’t decided if I should for my own personal one – I have it set up as me but did share my blog URL on it. You got me thinking. You have yours as your name and verified your blog. (I may go for it)
Funny thing, my Pinterest board ranks higher than the actual site (Google ranking) Go figure!
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Sonia
Hey Lisa, you have no idea how long it took me to get this right. I found a few posts that explained it, but I tend to learn better when I get step by step advice with pictures. In 1 minute I was done when I wished the other posts gave me explicit directions that I could understand. I didn’t know it was that easy, so I knew I had better pass this jewel on to anyone else that felt like me too.
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Brenda
Woohoo!! Fabulous tutorial! Mine is verified and I forgot I had done it until I saw your post. I recently changed my website linky to my about.me site. Thanks for the reminder and now I’m reverified with Pibbles & Me!
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Sonia
Hey Brenda, I read a few other posts about it and no one really just SHOWED me how to actually do it. Maybe I just don’t like vague instruction and love it when people actually demonstrate it in more detail. I couldn’t wait to share this post. Glad it worked out for you. How is Titan?
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Donna Merrill
Hey Sonia,
You did it again my friend. This tutorial is amazing. It is a time saver for so many. Also, It is of the utmost importance to have your site verified. There are so many “hackers” out there, that it needs to be done.
Donna
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Hi Donna! I heard about that and thought I should get mine done too so at least I would look legit. More and more spam pictures are showing up on Pinterest and I find myself now getting picky about who I repin from. Luckily, I have seen alerts to not repin images that were alerted to be spam. Hopefully this helps others to get their sites verified.
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Stacy Claflin
Hi Sonia,
Thank you so much for putting this together! I couldn’t figure out where to upload the pinterest file on my own. I thought that I could just upload it from WP.
Stacy
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Sonia
Hi Stacy, I thought that too. LOL! If you told me to upload it to my FTP, I start laughing because I am just not that tech savvy when it comes to stuff like that. Once I finally figured it out, I couldn’t believe how easy it was. Still, I knew others out there might not know how either and step by step tutorials always work for me! How is the book coming along?
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Adrienne
Oh people love easy instructions Sonia and that’s exactly what you just gave us.
I just did mine a couple weeks ago actually. It’s the same process when verifying your site in Google webmaster tools so if anyone needs help with that, follow Sonia’s simple instructions and you’re on your way.
Bravo girl, thank you so much.
~Adrienne
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Sonia
You know me…I have to make it easy. I think that is why I love your blog so much. You always make it easy for people to understand and get. When I do tutorials, I just try and remember the frustration associated with learning it and how I think others must feel too. Thanks so much for your comment as always!
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Sylviane Nuccio
Thanks for this tutorial Sonia. Again what a good one. I guess I’ve got to do it now. It seems easy enough and will do this very soon.
I’ve heard of the bad seeds that are sending virus though pictures on Pinterest, that’s so sad that such evil is always lurking to do bad things.
Thanks your step by step
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Sylviane, please accept my apology for this late reply. When I made this video I was so happy to share what I had learned considering I was clueless when I was trying to figure this out myself. Glad you found some use out of it.
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Carol Minarcik
Hello Sonia, Thanks for this post, I did open a pinterest accont but never really did anything with it yet…but as the weather gets less than nice, I sure plan to concentrate on learning what to do with it and for sure will add my website. Thanks for the lesson.
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Hey Ms Carol, so sorry I missed your comment here. It took me forever to figure this out and when I did I just had to share it with everyone else. How are you?
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Carol Lynn
Good to know, Sonia, I have NOT done this but now I guess I should get in gear… since Pinterest just released its business pages I have to check that out too. Always something new to do! Anyway I think Pinterest should pay you for writing this, since they couldn’t be the ones to make it clear to their users how to do it!
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Sonia
Ha ha…who you telling! Do you have a Pinterest page yet? I know you are so busy with other stuff and wanted to make sure I was following you on Pinterest.
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Ileane
Hey Sonia,
Great job on educating us with step by step instructions for verifying our blogs on Pinterest. I saw a video from Brankica and completed the process about a week ago.
I even saw a post with instructions for doing this on a Blogger blog.
I thought that was pretty cool but I had no way to test them out.
btw – I’m glad you invited me to the marketing board – I started a CommentLuv Blogs board too and your blog has already been pinned!
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Sonia
Hey Ileane, sorry for the late reply. I saw her video to, but I am so non-developer centric, that parts of it left me lost. It got me started, but I needed that middle piece to see visually to connect the dots. How are things with you?
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Barbara Charles
Hi Sonia. Thanks for writing this. Great info especially since pinterest is becoming such a big thing and I’ve stayed away from it because I found it confusing. Thanks for the easy, laid out instructions. Perfect as I love easy! Good job.
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Sonia
Hi Ms Barbara! Sorry for the late reply, I missed this message. Are you on Pinterest? Send me your link so I can follow you.
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Brankica
lol, just made a video on this one recently
I am surprised more people haven’t done it yet!
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Sonia
Hi Brankica, sorry for the late reply. When I saw your video, it was great, but I was still clueless. I should have just emailed you, but didn’t want to bother. I am so clueless when it comes to uploading anything to my server. How is your doggy doing? Aren’t you competing soon?
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Tim
Yet again you come through for me / us! This was very simple to do and I wish when you looked for things like this is was so straight forward.
You’re awesome Sonia!
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Sonia
Tim! How are you? I haven’t talked to you in a bit and was thinking about you the other day. I am so sorry I missed this message, but glad you found some value out of it.
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Michelle
OK why did I find this AFTER I struggled to figure out how to get the meta file uploaded in Hostgator! I searched all over Google, finally figured it out then saw your post in my google reader!
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Hi Michelle! I searched too and it was not user friendly. I think step by step with pictures seems to do the trick for me and I am so happy to see that others felt the same way. How are things with you?
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Michelle
Things are pretty good. i’m working on my fitness 20/25 pounds to lose…uck
I’m also looking forward to vacation for the last 2 weeks of the year! Not going anywhere but it’s good to not be at the office! how about you?
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JanBierens
Another great tutorial and for your information… clear what one has to do to get the website verifies even if you don’t use CPanel.
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My host has some Cisco based interface. When I first got my site verified I was kinda surprised how much traffic it brought, relatively speaking… Now it has settles it seems.
Wonderful tips!
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Hi Jan, sorry for the late reply. Cisco interface? Who do you use for hosting. I never heard of that?
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Chuck Rayman
Just stumbled on to your site when I was searching how to verify my website on Pinterest via WordPress. That’s when I found your blog post. Great post and awesome site that you have.
Wish you the best.
Sonia
Hi Chuck, thank you so much for stopping by. I am glad that the post helped you out because I searched for it too.
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Mary Hall
Sonia, thank you SO MUCH. This was extremely helpful, and it worked. I tried so many ways to make this work, but with your help, I finally got it. Creating a page in WordPress, did not work. Uploading the file did. And you showed me how in an easy way. You are the best. Going to follow you on Twitter now. THANKS AGAIN, Mary
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Sonia
Hi Ms Mary. Glad it could help. When I do tutorials, I always strive to make it so easy so we can understand this. Sorry for the late reply too!
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Danijela
Yes! I love this option.
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Hi Danijela, how are things? I am glad this helped because I sure did for myself.
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DeDe
Thank you so much! I could not of done this without your great step by step!
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Hi Dede, please accept my apology for the late reply. You are very welcome and I am glad you found value in this post. Girl, I try and make it simple.
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RobG
Hello Sonia thanks so much for the tutorial, I’ve been trying to complete mine but not having much luck for some reason, It’s saying something about can’t complete it at this time.
If you have any tips that might help me please let me know. Have a wonderful day and I hoe to talk to you soon.
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Hi Rob, sorry for the late reply. I had read so many other posts about it, but no one really showed you step by step without explaining all the steps. Glad it helped out. Thanks for stopping by Rob! I like your blog!
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Monica
Thanks you so much for this post! I am now Pinterest verified.
Sonia
Hi Monica, no problem, glad it could help. I was clueless trying to figure it out and I knew I wasn’t alone. Thanks for stopping by!
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Sweetphi
What an AWESOME tutorial! Thanks, it really was helpful and worked!
Sonia
Hi Phila…glad it helped you out because when I tried to find the easy answers for us cPanel folks it was very limited.
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Penny
Thank you so much.
Sonia
You are very welcome.
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Holly Waterfall
Sonia, what a great tutorial. I must be the only one that’s getting hung up here… I’ve followed everything to the tee, but when it comes to uploading the file that I JUST downloaded, I get a bar at the bottom of the page that says “C:\fakepath\pinterest-34646.html” and then doesn’t load anything to finish the verifying process. I’m desperate to make this happen and I’ve been searching everywhere… one of my potential ad networks is requiring my pinterest page to be verified as a business account. please help.
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Holly Waterfall
I have now tried this in a different browser (was in chrome before), and at least this time it tell me that the upload is complete, but Pinterest still isn’t showing me as verified. help!
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Sonia
I used Chrome too when I did this. When you download the HTML from pinterest, save it to your desk top. It will look like the Chrome (icon). That is what you will use to upload this to your FTP or Hostgator. When I tried this it failed on me a few times too. If you use Hostgator, put Pinterest in the search fields (in Cpanel File Manager) and delete the other Pinterest files you uploaded. This might be the confusion because it was already downloaded. Once you delete the other files, redo it again and it should work.
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