How to Upload Any Files to Blogger/site for Download
There are so many options out there for creating your own blog. If you looking for a platform which offers same at free of cost, Blogger is the best blogging platform which is created by google.
It’s completely free hosting with unlimited posts and traffics. You just need to pay for purchase a domain or you can use their free “.blogspot.com” sub-domain.
Sometimes you want to upload any data/files and share to download link on your websites. At present, you cannot do this in blogger directly by post editor. But don’t worry, there are another option to upload any data/file in google by using Google Drive.
Here are the steps to follow:
- Go to Google Drive.
- Click on New > Folder and name the folder name Blogger Files and click on Create.
- Open the newly created folder.
- Click on New > File Upload and select the file which you want to upload.
- After uploaded file, Right-click on it and click on Share
- Click on Copy link
- Open Notepad and paste copied link in Notepad.
- Then again copy below link and paste it to Notepad.
- Now copy FILE_ID from first link and paste it to second link by replacing FILE_ID. See below image.
- Example my direct download link will be like this
That’s it. Now you can share this direct download link anywhere of your post.
Wrapping it up !
Google drive gives you a free 15gb storage per new gmail account and you can use it on any kind of websites/platform like Blogger, WordPress or Joomla etc.