Do you need to verify your WordPress
site on your Pinterest account? Well
keep watching, in this video I'll walk
you through step by step how you can
unlock the Pinterest analytics for your
WordPress website. In order to verify
your website on Pinterest you must first
have a Pinterest business account but
don't worry it's an easy process to get.
If you have just a personal account, you
can head over to Pinterest, go up with
the three dots, and they make it really
easy they're really encouraging everyone
to upgrade to a business account
and don't worry a business account is a free
account that will help you unlock pro
tools like analytics and their ad
program. Go up with the three dots
and you can click upgrade now. From here you
want to add the business name or the
name of your website and under pick a
business type most of us will be
professional or a blogger what not. Then
when you click continue it'll take you
through the next step of verifying. Now
if you don't have a Pinterest account
it's quite easy to get. You simply go to
Pinterest.com and instead of personal
you want to sign up with a business
account. From here enter your email, the
password you want to use for Pinterest,
the business name, again usually the blog
name, and professional bloggers would be
the thing that we want to use. From here
just walk through the few steps that it
takes to add your site to Pinterest
and just pick different topics, you can also
skip this later,
they're suggesting that you get the
Pinterest browser button we can do that
later and once it drops us into the
dashboard again you'll want to go to the
three dots up here and we want to go to
settings. Under settings we want to claim
website so let's click on claim website.
Make sure you have your website address
here or put it in and click claim
website. From here there are two ways
that we can claim it we want to add the
HTML tag that's the easiest for us. So
we're going to click that button and we
need to highlight the meta name and we
want to right-click and copy. What we
need to do is add this information to
our website so let's head back over to
our WordPress dashboard and there
are two methods that you can do for this.
Most of you will have the Yoast plugin on
your website and you can do that there.
If you don't have Yoast plugin
I'll show you another method that you can use
to verify your website. So let's go to
SEO and we want to go to social and what
you want to do is head over to Facebook
I know we're talking about Pinterest but
let's make sure that under Facebook we
have this enabled so make sure that it says
enabled and that means that it's adding
the Open Graph metadata to our website
and that just allows extra functionality
on our website. So let's do that then
we'll head over to the Pinterest tab
and you see that as asking for the
confirmation information that's that bit
of code that we just copied from
Pinterest
so we'll right click here and paste it.
Once you paste it we can click Save
Changes now if you're not using Yoast on
your website then you can go to Plugins,
Add New and we'll look for Insert
Headers and Footers. It's a plugin that
allows you to add code to your site
without messing anything up and it's
actually a plugin that we've created to
make things simple so here it is. We want
to click install now and we need to go
ahead and activate it as well.
Once you see it's activated here let's
go to settings Insert Headers and
Footers you want to right-click and
paste that code here and then click Save
and then we need to go back over to
Pinterest to say next and then Pinterest
will check for the site and make sure
that we know that it's connected. They
say it can take up to 24 hours, it
usually is pretty immediate so you
should be good to go and you see I just
refreshed it and it's showing that it's
claimed. now that it's claimed we have
our area up here for analytics that you
can click on and go to overview and
since we just did it you're not going to
see much going on here but check back in
a little bit and you'll start to see the
data coming through on your site. did you
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