photo credit : PearsonifiedToday I will list down few of the top FREE photo sharing / hosting tools that you will always find handy for your blog . Images are a great source for attracting readers and getting more hits to your blog but if you find your self short of hosting bandwidth for your blog then it is always a nice idea to host your site images elsewhere . There are various free image hosting services but I am listing down few of the top ones that offer reliable services with lots of monthly bandwidth ( in some cases unlimited ) .
1. Photobucket
Photobucket offers 1GB of free web space for storing your images, photos and videos as well . Plus all your hosted media gets 25GB of free monthly bandwidth which is more than enough for a low / medium traffic site .
2. Flickr
This one is run by Yahoo can you can upload 100MB of images each month . That makes it 1200MB per year and it never ends . The counter is reset when the next month starts and you get 100MB of more bandwidth for adding photos to your Flickr account .
3. Picasa
Picasa Web albums is run by Google itself so you can always rely on them for maximum up time and lots of free bandwidth . You get 1024 MB = 1 GB of free web space for storing your images . Plus it has many other features beside offering free image hosting and sharing .
4. Webshots
This one offers numbers rather than space . Being a free member you can upload 1000 photos plus you get additional photo slots ( up to 100 ) each month .
5. Tinypic
Tinypic is just like Photobucket .In fact it is run my Photobucket and the great part is that they do not have any limits on the number of photos you upload to your account . The maximum resolution allowed is 1600 pixel either width or height . Images larger than this will be automatically re sized .
6. Imageshack
There is only one restriction on this site and it is on the size of image you upload . There is no limit on the number of images you upload to your account so this one offers unlimited storage and bandwidth for your photos .
It is up to you which one you join but I will advise you to go through their Terms of Service before you joining any .This will give you an idea about what kind of images you can upload to these free image hosts and another piece of advice is to always create a free account and then upload your images because if you upload without registering then there is no guarantee that you images will be kept in their database for ever.