Are you on Pinterest? It's an innovative social platform to discover or organize interesting stuff found online and to share with other people. And it becomes more and more popular with aggressive user engagement since it has been open for people via invitations. You can find a brief introduction about Pinterest here in Add Pinterest Pin It Button for Your Blogger Posts post. Pinterest is all about sharing and managing interesting stuff found online. You can promote your content if you need. But mostly it works for having interesting pins. Either you can pin interesting images or videos found online or upload content right from your computer. But still some publishers may see some sort of a copyright violation over there as Pinterest enables ease of access to copyrighted materials that are being pinned from their websites by other users. So Pinterest offered publishers a way to opt-out their websites from being pinned on Pinterest. Do you wanna opt-out from being pinned?
Most of people start to use Pinterest as it is a new way of social experience. But as it gets popular, people start to use it without even understanding the site. However from first days, Pinterest imposed few guidelines and asks users to credit sources when they pin external content to their personal pinboards. Eventhough they have been not credited, pins will always attached with link back to source page. So it still advantageous as a way of gaining more traffic to websites. But if you are much concerned about copyright infringement of your content, Pinterest offer nopin meta tag for you to prevent content being pinned from your website. Actually this meta tag prevents Pinterest from crawling images on sites. But as an alternative, still people can download copyrighted content from your website and upload to their pinboards without acknowledging you.
Steps:
There is no such a complex procedure to opt out your site from pinning. Just search for <head> tag in your template and add below meta tag right after the <head> tag in a new line.
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />
Note: If you are a Blogger user and don't know how to edit your template, read How to Edit Your Blogger Template.
More Information:
* Once you opt out your site from pinning, whenever a user try to pin your images or content, they will be notified that your site doesn't allow pins.
If someone try to pin your site content from Pinterest
If someone try to pin directly from your website via bookmarklet or pin it button
Enjoy :-)
