Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Pinterest for Business: Why You Can't Use the New Analytics for Your eBay, Etsy, & Amazon Store

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photo courtesy mkhmarketing on flickr.

Yesterday, Pinterest announced new tools for Pinterest Business accounts: Analytics.  

This is very exciting, and free.  We all like free.  There's just one catch.

Pinterest Analytics will not work for your eBay, Etsy, Amazon, or Shopify store, nor will this work for certain free blogging platforms.

To use Pinterest Analytics, you must first verify your Pinterest Business account.  You can only verify top level domains, like eBay.com.  At this time, these sites will not allow you to upload html files to give Pinterest the verification process it wants so you cannot verify these sites.  

Pinterest now has an alternate method to verify your website with meta tags, but I have not been able to find a way of embedding the correct meta tag in the correct place in eBay stores for verification.  I will keep investigating and keep you updated if I learn anything new.

4 comments:

  1. Have you found the correct way to embed meta tags for an ebay store to become verified on Pinterest? Thank-you!

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    1. No, unfortunately I still can not find a work-around.

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  2. Thank you so much for this post :D ! I have been trying to figure out how to verify my blog, and I couldn’t find anything. That is, until I stumbled upon your post!
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