How to Keep Your Blogs Look Beautiful and Still Have the Long Pins that Pinners love: Hiding a Pinterest Image On Cucumbertown and Having Rich Pins on Your Blog

We all know about how long pins with a heap of text work well on Pinterest.

But they don’t look particularly attractive on your blog, because well, most often they are incongruously long and a little bit of an eyesore leading to a less than satisfactory reading experience. Which is why savvy food bloggers hide these images from the post and do a little bit of backend coding to get the images to appear on Pinterest.

You may have noticed this happen when you clicked on that elaborate pin with the steps integrated into a collage. Nowhere on the blog post do you see that same collage. This is what a hidden Pinterest image is on your blog.

Usually bloggers do this by tweaking the code a little bit. And I know a fair few pople who hatte the idea of anything to do with coding. The rresult? Either they don’t do the collages, or their blogs end up looking not so attractive.

At Cucumbertown, we have now introduced this in a simple step. Given below is a step-by step process on how to do this.

Since you want the image hidden, make sure it is not a part of the post.

If you are wondering how any of the other images can be pinned, worry not, just hover on the respective image, and it can be pinned to the boards you want.

So don’t worry about the code or the clutter. Get started on those collages pinners love!

Rich Pins

The other thing that pinners are into at the moment are Rich Pins. Rich Pins are basically pins with more information, making them more SEO friendly. Now the Cucumbertown bloggers can have their blogs validated for rich pins.

This is how it s done.

https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/rich-pins/validator/

Go int this website, and click on Validate Your Blog.

In the window given below, enter the URL of one of your recipe pages, NOT the home page.

Once this is done, you will then get the message below, along with an email from Pinterest. Now all your pins will be automatically rich pins!

What are you waiting for now?Get pinning!