How To Never Exceed Blogger 1GB Multimedia Storage Space

How To Never Exceed Blogger 1GB Multimedia Storage Space

Google-powered blogging platform Blogger gives the free users a total of 1GB of storage space for the multimedia on their blogs. The space seems abundant in the start but actually gets eaten up pretty fast especially if one puts up high quality images or videos on the blog. Instead of ending up with all that free space eaten up, let's take a look at a simple blogging trick that works with Blogger blogs and lets the users to never really reach that storage limit. In short, you get to have a form of an infinite storage for the multimedia on your blog while staying in the legal grounds.

Is multimedia important for a blog?

Photos and videos are one important aspect of a blog post and without it, a post will probably look dull and boring. Even if yours is not a photography blog, photos constitute a major part of your blog post and are equally important as the text. With the storage constraints technically removed, you can enjoy putting up unlimited images and videos on your blog and experience an infinite storage for those without even paying a dime. While several bloggers would also find it easy to pay for extra storage, it is never a bad idea to limit yourself and avail the services for free.

How Blogger manages multimedia

Blogger uses the Picasa Web Albums service to store your blog's multimedia. Picasa provides a storage space of 1GB for the multimedia to a free user. Now the interesting part, which is also the trick to actually get limitless storage, is the storage rules for multimedia files on Picasa. Several may already be familiar with those but several more got to know of that when it was highlighted in Google forums by an official.

"Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos. However, files under certain size limits don’t count towards this free storage limit. This applies to uploads for other Google product that store photos and videos in Picasa Web Albums, including Blogger, Google+ and Google Maps. Photos up to 800 x 800 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage", reports a Google Official.

The trick?

Photos of resolution 800x800 pixels or lesser and videos of length less than 15 minutes do not count towards the storage limit of your blog regardless of their quality. You could upload hundreds of thousands of photos and videos that fit the criteria and your storage space would not lessen a bit. This trick works really well and saves you a handful of hard earned money provided you frequently upload images to your blogs which easily eats up the default free storage and you get to buy more.

Conclusion

So now you're probably not going to need to hesitate uploading photos and videos on your blog because of the storage limitations sicne you found a way around it. But that doesn't mean you should move out of the limits and put unwanted and extra images on your blog. Make sure you know the rules and keep a good balance between text and images on your blog post.

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