How to Confirm Your WordPress Blog In Pinterest With Yoast SEO

Last updated on August 1st, 2018 at 07:02 pm

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We’ve all heard the stories about how Pinterest can be a goldmine for bloggers. In today’s tutorial, I am going to show you how to confirm your blog in Pinterest with Yoast SEO.

If you haven’t been using Pinterest to help you grow your blog. Why Not?

Yes, there is a little bit of a learning curve that comes to learning how to Pinterest. However, after making it the social media platform I wanted to learn, in just 2 months, I am starting to see some blog growth.

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Why Pinterest?

Chances are you’ve heard about Pinterest. Many bloggers are using it to help them grow their blog.

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Maybe you’ve hesitated getting started with it because your blog isn’t about recipes, fashion or other girly stuff.

When I first started my blog, I didn’t even bother with setting up a Pinterest account. I set up a Twitter and Facebook account.

Disclaimer: I am NOT a Pinterest expert. I am still learning the platform and can only share what I’m doing and what’s working for me. I’ll share what’s working to help me grow my blog and what I’m doing to improve my Pinterest strategies.

For some reason, I wasn’t even interested in learning about Pinterest. Maybe I just didn’t want to spend the time learning another new social media platform.

I already had my hands full with Facebook and Twitter. Those 2 platforms were completely new to me. I just couldn’t imagine adding another network to learn.

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Until one day, I read a blog post online from a blogger (I can’t remember which article it was). She was talking about how Pinterest was a traffic goldmine for her blog.

That’s when I decided it was time to learn how to start using it. I had never used it before. I didn’t even have a personal account set up.

Instead of spending hours trying to figure it out on my own, I invested in the Pinning Perfect course.

This course helped lay the foundation of my Pinterest strategy. Since Pinterest is the social media platform that I am focusing on 95%, I am learning new things each and every day.

As bloggers, we want to make sure that we’re getting traffic from multiple sources. You don’t want to rely on just traffic source, otherwise, you’ll regret it when the algorithm or rules change.

My goal with this post is to show you how easy it is to get your Pinterest account set up so you can start using it to help you grow your blog.

Hopefully, my tutorial will be helpful to at least one person.

Let’s get started…

Watch Over My Shoulder

If you’d rather watch me verifying my Pinterest account then I created this step-by-step tutorial to help you get through the entire process. Of course, if you’d rather follow my screenshot tutorial, scroll past the video.

Confirm Your Blog in Pinterest with Yoast SEO

If you’re reading this post, chances are you’re using WordPress as your blogging platform. If you need to learn more about WordPress, then you’re in the right place.

I write tons of basic tutorials for beginners. My goal is to empower you to start, grow and monetize your blog.

WordPress can be challenging to learn when I first started with it several years ago. It took me over 8 hours to set up my first blog.

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Now my mission is to make the basics easier for you. Hopefully, my tutorials, advice, and videos give you the courage to start your own blog.

If you’ve just started your blog, don’t put off learning Pinterest any longer. Start pinning your blog posts today!

Head on over to Pinterest and set up your account. By the time you get done reading this post, you’ll have a brand new business account you can start using.

Setting Up Your Pinterest Account

If you’re using your Pinterest account to grow your blog traffic, you’ll want to set up a Business Account. Oh, and here’s a great post that will show you how to make WordPress Pinterest friendly.

This will help you keep track of your analytics. The analytics will help you keep track of which pins are sending you the most traffic.

I’m not going to go into why you need a business account instead of a personal account. Instead, I am going to walk you through the process of getting your account set up.

Converting Your Personal Account

If you’re already using Pinterest and want to convert it to a business account, you can do that.

Click on the 3 dots on the top page and you’ll get an option to convert your personal account to a business account.

Click on “convert to business account” and your personal account will be converted without you having to do anything else.

Verifying Your WordPress Blog

Once you’ve created your business account, you’ll need to verify your account. I recommend using the Yoast SEO plugin, which makes it extremely easy to verify your Pinterest account.

Head on over to settings and let’s get your blog verified.

You’ll be asked to select the type of business you have.

Add Your Website

You’ll want to add your website and click on convert. If you’re converting a personal account to a business account, your current boards and pins should convert with you.

Confirm Your Website

The next step is going to ask you to add HTML to your <head> section of your index.html file. You can’t start using your business account until your site has been verified.

Verifying your account is the only way you’ll see analytics. I’ll walk you through the process of verifying your site on WordPress. Here’s a tutorial that will show you how to confirm your site on other blogging platforms.

Verifying Via Yoast SEO

If you’re using the Yoast SEO plugin (It’s the same plugin I use for my blog), you won’t have any issues verifying your account.

Grab the code that Pinterest provides you and log in to your WordPress dashboard. Now go to SEO >> Social >> Pinterest

Enter your verification code then click save changes.

Go back to your Pinterest account and click on the red “Finish” button.

If everything was successful, you should be able to see your business profile.

If you’re having challenges and not seeing your business account, walk away from your computer.

You might have to give Pinterest a while for the changes to take effect.

If you’re still having issues, then ask your questions below, I’ll help you out as best as I can. You could try running through the process again just to make sure that you didn’t skip anything.

If you’re on a self-hosted blog, which hopefully you are. Then you know that there are literally tons of different social sharing plugins you can use to make it easy for people to share your content.

I’ve personally been using the premium version of the Social Warfare plugin. I love it so much that I’ve written several tutorials to help you understand how to set it up and customize it.

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Final Take Away

As you can see from this tutorial, WordPress makes it extremely easy to verify your Pinterest account. Hopefully, it helped you learn how to confirm your blog in Pinterest with Yoast SEO in just minutes.

Now that you have your account verified and are ready to start pinning, it’s time to find the right social sharing plugin.

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Once you have your blog set up on Pinterest, you can now start sharing your blog posts. I make it a point to post each and every blog post that I publish to Pinterest.

Social Warfare makes it easy to do, so don’t put it off anymore. After all, as bloggers, we need to ensure that we’re sharing our blog posts everywhere we can.

Pinterest Resources to Help You Grow

Once you start using Pinterest, you’re going to realize that you need help. You can’t spend all day pinning. Especially if you want to grow your blog.

I am currently using all these tools to help me grow my blog. They have become a vital part of helping me get more traffic from Pinterest.

Social Warfare Plugin: This is the social sharing plugin that I am using on my blog. It makes it extremely easy for people to share my content.

Tailwind: This is one of the automated tools that I use to help schedule my pins in advance. This makes it easy to continue pinning on a daily basis, without spending all day on Pinterest.

Board Booster: I am still learning how to use this tool. However, I’ve just set up some scheduled campaigns and am really learning the benefits. Update: As of June 2018 they no longer offer their services anymore and went out of business.

Pinning Perfect: Without this course, I would still be struggling with my Pinterest strategy. This course helped me cut my learning curve in half. If you don’t know how to get started with Pinterest, this course can definitely help. You can purchase the course here.

Are you using Pinterest to help you grow your blog?

Did you have any issues when you first set up your business account? Let me know, I’d love to hear about it.

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Comments

Rahul Bansal says

September 26, 2017 at 7:13 am

“I visited your website. I really like it. Lots of good information. Keep it up.”
- Susan Velez says
  
  September 27, 2017 at 4:14 am
  
  Hi Rahul,
  
  Glad you found the article helpful. Are you using Pinterest to help you grow your blog?
  
  Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment, have a great day 🙂
  
  Susan
Rajinder Singh says

September 27, 2017 at 5:41 am

Hi Susan,

You made it really easy. Wonderful!
Confirming website with Pinterest account through Yoast is a really easy way but I believe this feature is available in Yoast SEO Premium? I have checked my Yoast SEO Dashboard, the above feature is not available because I’m using a free version of Yoast.

I was trying to confirm website with Pinterest using standard way but It takes a long time. Is there any another way available? Please share!

Thank you for sharing an informative article with us.

– Rajinder
- Susan Velez says
  
  September 27, 2017 at 5:58 am
  
  Hi Rajinder,
  
  You can use the free version of Yoast to confirm your blog. You won’t see the social tab right away, what you need to do is click on the SEO tab and then go to Dashboard.
  
  Once you’re on the dashboard page, click on the Features tab. Then scroll down until you see the Advanced Settings Pages. Slide it from Disabled to Enabled.
  
  Now save your changes and you should see the Social tab. Now you can go in there and verify your Pinterest account.
  
  Sorry, I missed adding that to the post. Let me know if you’re able to add the code to your Yoast SEO.
  
  Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
  
  Have a great day 🙂
  
  Susan
  - Rajinder Singh says
    
    September 30, 2017 at 12:34 am
    
    You Rocks !!!!
    
    I just confirmed my website on Pinterest. As you said, we need to enable advanced setting on features tab. After enabling the advanced setting the “social” (sub tab) will be displayed under SEO (main tab).
    
    Thanks once again for sharing a wonderful idea to confirming website with Pinterest account through Yoast.
    
    – Rajinder
    - Susan Velez says
      
      September 30, 2017 at 6:53 am
      
      Hi Rajinder,
      
      Glad you were able to follow my tutorial and get your site confirmed. Yeah, finding the Social tab can be a little confusing on Yoast.
      
      Did the video help at all?
      
      Good luck with your Pinterest promotion. Just remember it takes time to figure it out just like anything else. At least that’s what I’ve personally found out.
      
      Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
      
      Have a great day 🙂
      
      Susan
Awogor Matthew says

September 27, 2017 at 5:03 pm

Wonderful post Susan, you have finished it again. At this time it was really interesting. I never new something like that exist. I’m converting my account right away to see how it works thanks much for this helpful article
- Susan Velez says
  
  September 28, 2017 at 4:29 am
  
  Hi Awogor,
  
  Glad that you found the post helpful, let me know if you have any issues verifying your Pinterest account.
  
  Have a great day 🙂
  
  Susan
Shani says

November 25, 2017 at 4:29 am

I have been working with Pinterest for awhile now, but still don’t have my site verified. I am going to try your tutorial and I hope it works. I’m very frustrated with the whole thing. Do I have been working with Twitter and Facebook for now. Planning to try YouTube but not sure. In the process of reworking my blog. Thanks so much for this post.
- Susan Velez says
  
  November 25, 2017 at 5:57 am
  
  Hi Shani,
  
  If you follow the tutorial, you shouldn’t have any issues verifying it with the Yoast SEO plugin. Be sure to watch the video if you want to see me do it step-by-step.
  
  I recommend sticking with 1-2 social networks and learn those before moving on to another one. I too have a YouTube channel and it’s growing but it’s been a slow process.
  
  Let me know if you are able to verify your Pinterest account.
  
  Good luck with your blogging journey.
  
  Have a great day 🙂
  
  Susan
Melissa Kreutz says

January 31, 2018 at 2:40 am

You two are awesome!! This has been incredibly helpful, I’ve been struggling for a while trying to confirm my site. Now, to figure out the rest!!!
Thanks again!!
Melissa
- Susan Velez says
  
  January 31, 2018 at 6:17 am
  
  Hi Melissa,
  
  So glad that I could help. Good luck with your Pinterest strategy.
  
  Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment.
  
  Have a great day 🙂
  
  Susan