Block Pinterest From Your Website Or Blog

If you are worried about your own images in your blog posts being used on Pinterest (see an extract from the Pinterest Terms & Conditions at the end of this post) through the use of the Pin It bookmarking tool then you can insert a small line of HTML into the <head> section of your blog/website template to revoke access to Pinterest.

This 2-step mini-tutorial works on Blogger and Wordpress.org.  Click on any image to enlarge it.
(at the time of writing you cannot alter the <head> section of Wordress.com)



The line of code you need to insert is 
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" /> 

It needs to be inserted just below the opening <head> section of your template


STEP 1
Navigate to your blog/website template



STEP 2
Find the opening <head> tag.
Place your cursor after the closing bracket and hit 'Enter' to create a new line.
Insert the meta name code from above
SAVE TEMPLATE




 As you can see here, I have clicked on the "Pin It" button in my browser and the pop-up alert automatically appears.  It says "This site doesn't allow pinning to Pinterest.  Please contact the owner with any questions.  Thanks for visiting!"





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Information source:  BBC News 

Official Terms and Conditions from Pinterest

Also, please be aware that the direct URL of your image can be used and "pinned".  There will always be hacks and backdoors if someone wants to copy your content. 

This "How To" originally appeared on the Typecast blog in February 2012