Stop people sharing your posts & images on PInterest [tweet this]
I'll share more about this soon. But in the meantime:
How to prevent people Pinning from your posts:
PInterest have provided a way for website owners to make it impossible for people to Pin pictures or articles from their site, by adding a very simple piece of code.
Unfortunately Blogger's post-editor doesn't allow meta-tags, so it cannot be applied to individual posts as you edit the post. Instead, you have to add the code to your template file. To do this:
1) Edit your template - you don't need to expand the widgets.
2) Find this text:
<head>(You may need to look for <head SOME-OTHER-STUFF>, depending on what template you are using. I just search for "<head", ie without the closing bracket, and make sure that I do what is needed after the closing bracket).
3) Add this line of code after the <head> tag:
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />Or
If you just want to block a specific post from being shared on Pinterest,
- add this code
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "PUT-THE-POST-URL-HERE"'>
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />
</b:if>
- and replace PUT-THE-POST-URL-HERE with the full address of the post that you don't want anyone to pin from
(eg http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/putting-tweet-this-quote-link-in-blog.html)
If you want to keep your template tidy, then you may want to find any other meta-tags already in the header section, and place this one with them. If tidiness matters to you like this, then I'm assuming you now enough to find the right spot, and to not nest the tags inside each other.
4) Preview (to make sure you've done it right)
5) Save the template change.
What your readers see
If you have installed the PInterest-blocking code, and one of your visitors tries to pin a blog-post of yours anyway, they get this message:
Which reads
"We could't find any images: This site doesn't allow pinning."
even though Pinterest's own documentation promised that it will read:
"This site doesn't allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!"
Depending on your niche, you may want to have a note somewhere on your blog, explaining why you don't allow pinning of your posts, and why.
How well does it work
Based on some quick tests, it's working well:
- It appears to apply despite the country-specific-URLS - I couldn't pin anything from http://blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com/2013/11/stop-pinterest-from-sharing-your.html
- It deals with posts as well as the overall URL: it gave me the same error message when I tried to pin http://blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com/2013/11/stop-pinterest-from-sharing-your.html
- The specific-post-only code worked when I tested it, too.
That thought, it cannot act enchanted. Any moderately computer-savvy person who reads can progress the manage URL in support of a photo in your blog, and pin so as to lacking leaving through the blog. You possibly will impede this by disabling right-clicks, but even so clever readers will precisely take screen-shots and turn into their own text of your photo (and it has other side-effects too). So in support of images so as to you particularly care for to care for, the usual blogger copyright protection techniques are still very pertinent.
Stopping sharing to other social networks:
I don't at present know of one way to impede readers sharing your blog to one other social networks (Facebook Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc).
However, the other networks are more almost sharing your status, and with a reduction of almost sharing other people's creations. If you allow privacy concerns so as to turn into you care for to impede frequent nearby from sharing "your" content, afterward the superlative line of attack is probably to precisely not position the material to the internet by the side of all.
But if you act know ways to impede sharing, I'd love to hear almost them.
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