How to change Pinterest Pin Links
May 21, 2015
You all know I moved my site, from blogger to word-press. It’s been difficult, worth the hassle in the long run, but a pure hassle no matter which way I paint it. There’s a huge hold up on new posts because there’s been issues that keep popping up.
Upon switching and locking in here with blue-host at word-press, my old links no longer work. My biggest traffic being Pinterest, I have pinners emailing me wondering if I deleted my entire site. Can you image getting an email saying ” Saw you no longer have a website but do you have this recipe?” Yeah, not fun.
No! I haven’t obviously but what happened was the links don’t work on pins made over a year ago, or even a month ago. Now the biggest problem here is, I can’t go change other people’s links, all I can do is hope they follow the bad link, reach my site and use the search button to find what they are after then simply make a new pin. As for my links, I’ve been going through each one by one to change them, and I’m going to show you how easy it can be in case you ever find yourself with a bad pin link on your hands.
How to change a Pin’s bad link-
- Hopefully where ever the link came from is still up and running, like my site, people come here from a bad link, then you have the option to use the “search this site” feature. So follow the link , bad or not. If the site is running, use the search feature, once you find the article/post you need copy the link in your browsers bar. * if the link is truly bad , say it comes to a white page saying page not found, check the link address, for example-
https://itsmysideoflife.com/2013/12/crock-pot-recipe-challenge-day-24/
The first part of this address is the main site. Copy paste this and hit enter. If the site turns up, search out the “search this site” feature and continue. If it does not work, the website is not running any longer. Kiss that link goodbye.
Time to head to Pinterest
- Try not to get lost in the marvelous new pins that are popping up, this is by far the hardest part of this entire process.
- Head into any of your boards, and click a pin, hit Edit at the top of the pin.
Here you can change the Board, the Description, Website and Location.
- Click the Website, now you can change the address. Sometimes links stop working, sometimes some adventurous blogger hauls their site elsewhere and breaks the links. Whatever the reason for the broken link just find the one that does work, copy paste and click save. You now have a working Pin once again.
You may now get back to pinning, Pin away my friend. Pin away!
15 Comments
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Kristen from The Road to Domestication
This is good stuff, thank you! Pinterest is so vital these days, it’s good to have all the details covered!
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Toughcookiemommy
All of these recipes look so delicious. I especially love the ones that contain pasta.
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April @ Everyday Fitness and Nutrition
I’ll have to file this information away for future reference. I get a lot of traffic from Pinterest too so it would not be a good thing to have those links not working.
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Carlee C
Great resource! Pinterest is such a large producer of traffic and you definitely do not want to miss out on these resources.
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Mama to 5 BLessings
Great tutorial. I have had to do this many times myself. Definitely want he correct link in or the pin is useless.
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Ann Bacciaglia
Thank you so much for this great information. I did not know you could change them. I will have to try it.
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Kae James
I didn’t know you could actually do that. This is good to know. I’m going to give this a try. Thank You.
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Pam
This is really good info to have. I have heard that there are all kinds of issues when switching from blogger to wordpress.
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Jeanine
Wow. I had no idea this was possible. So, this is great info to know just in case. Ya never know! Thanks for sharing!
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Robin Rue (@massholemommy)
I never knew that they could be changed. I thought once they were there, they were there for life.
Amber NElson
This is very helpful. I am still learning how to use pinterest.