You have a business profile on Pinterest, you’ve claimed your website, what’s the next step?
Setting Up Pinterest Rich Pins
It’s to set up, enable and apply for Rich Pins. How to set up Pinterest Rich Pins on Pinterest when you have a WordPress website may seem like a daunting process, but it’s actually fairly easy. Here are the instructions for WordPress websites.
You can get Rich Pins set up for your site in two steps:
1. Add metadata to your site
2. Validate and apply for Rich Pins
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Step 1. Add metadata to the website
Each website has different instructions on how to add the metadata. If you are a WordPress user, the process is the following (if you use Squarespace, it’s already built in and you don’t need to do step 1).
1. Use Yoast SEO plugin. Install and activate.
2. Once you install and activate Yoast, in your WordPress dashboard, click on SEO:
3. Click on Social (1) > Facebook (2) > Enabled (3) > Save Changes (4)
(Pro Tip: for recipe blog Rich Pins, you’ll need a recipe card plugin, such as Tasty Recipes or Cookbook.)
Step 2. Validate and Apply for Rich Pins
Once your site has all the necessary information for Pinterest Rich Pins, just apply and activate them. For this step, head to the Rich Pin Validator.
Add any URL from your website/blog posts and click validate. You will only need to do this one time.
Once you get the green check mark, click “apply now”.
Some websites get approved right away. Some get a thank you message like the one below. If you get the message below, just give it a few days.
P.S – Ready to get started on Pinterest? My FREE Pinterest Starting Guide can help you get started in 15 minutes or less! Download it here.
P.P.S. Heather Farris’s FREE Pinterest marketing workshop will help you grow your Pinterest account. Watch it here.
P.P.P.S – Create fresh pins easily with Canva templates (free and paid) here.
