The next stage of the evolution of the web services allowing you to upload files for free and then share them with your fiends or visitors of a website gives you the opportunity to earn some money by making a file download blog or website. If you register as an uploader at such a service you’ll be able to get some money from each file you upload and them somebody downloads from your new site or blog. And if you already have a website or blog you can quickly turn the downloads it has into money in no time by transferring the files to the new service. Here is a list of some of the most promising free file uploading services that give you the opportunity to earn some cash. Even if you don’t have a website or blog that you can use, you can still make money using these services by sharing files in forums or just about any other place where you can post links…

1. HotFile

HotFile allows you to upload files with maximum file size of 400MB and share them with the world, but the best thing is that you can earn money while uploading and sharing the files you’ve uploaded. The amount you get paid depends on the file size of your files and it goes as follows: $5 for every 1000 downloads of files between 5-50MB, $7 for every 1000 downloads of files between 50-100MB and $10 for every 1000 downloads for big files of 100MB or more. Downloads are counted only if done from the following countries: United States, Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Latvia, Estonia, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Australia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Liechtenstein, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Payments are being made every monday via Epassporte, Webmoney or Paypal (you choose what type of payment) with a minimum payment amount of $15.

- For more information about HotFile…

2. Uploading

Uploading gives you the opportunity to upload and share files for free up to a size of 1024MB or 1GB and share them with everyone. What you can expect to earn is $10 for every 1000 downloads from United Kindom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria or USA, Canada; $5 for 1000 downloads from Russia, Holland, Greece; $2 for 1000 downloads from Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic. And when you reach $30 or more you can request a payment by either Epese, Epassporte, Wire Transfer, Webmoney or PayPal which is the preferred method.

- For more information about Uploading…

3. Easy-Share

With Easy-Share you’ll be able to upload and share your files and for every download you’ll earn ePoints which can then be converted into real cash. The maximum file size you can upload to Easy-Share is 200MB. You’ll earn ePoints each time someone downloads your files and you can make up to 2 ePoints per download, based on the origin country of the downloader. You get 2 ePoints for download from: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, France, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and USA. You get 1 ePoint for download from: Brazil, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexica, Turkey, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. From every other download you get from another country you are going to get 0.1 ePoint. Then you can convert every 1000 ePoints you’ve earned for $1. The minimum is $10 to request payment with PayPal or ePassporte, minimum $50 for getting your payment trough WebMoney or minimum $500 for Wire Transfer.

- For more information about Easy-Share…

4. Sharing Matrix

With SharingMatrix all you need to do is upload a file and place the URL received on your forum or blog web page, or on any other web pages where the user agreement permits you to put links fo your files. The maximum file size is 1024MB or 1GB so you can upload pretty much evetything that is legal of course. With SharingMatrix you can earn up to 30$ for every unique 1000 downloads made from visitors of the following countries: USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Swiss, Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Russia, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. For 1 file with size of 1-100MB you’ll earn $5 for 1000 downloads, for files with size of 101-250MB you’ll get $10 for 1000 downloads and for files of 251MB or over you get $15. The payment period is every 2 weeks with a minimal payment of $30 and you can receive your money only trough PayPal.

- For more information about Sharing Matrix…

Expect information about more such free uploading services the moment I’m able to try them. I believe that the preferred method for getting payed from the above services is PayPal, so if you still don’t have an account you can create your PayPal account here.

Here is a small list of some of the most popular places where you can get a free blog without needing to have your own domain name, hosting or to even understand anything about web design or programming. The focus of these web services is just to give you the ability to quickly and easily make your own personal blog no matter who you are, what you do or where you live. Services such as Wordpress, Blogger or LiveJournal and lots more offer you to start sharing your thoughts, ideas, knowledge or even daily life with your current friends and even make some new ones. Some of these services even give you the option to monetize your blog traffic the easy way… bu just writing good articles and not having to worry about anything else than the content you make. The following free services are a good start if you are still new at blogging and are learning how to do different things and than later on you can migrate to a better platform that is hosted on your own site with full control over anything…

1. Wordpress

Wordpress is a great piece of free software that you can use to build your own blog or get a free web blog Wordpress.com without the need to think about hosting, domain name and even additional features. The Wordpress.com’s blogging community is probably not the biggest, but it is quickly growing and you can become a part of it quickly and easily. When you register your blog you are getting a quite well built installation of the Wordpress script with some features such as visitor statistics already up and running. You can easily customize the blog to suit almost your every need and even add some paid additional features if the free ones are just not enough for you. You also can fill up to 3GB with your photos so that you have more than enough space to use for any type of blog, even making a personal photo blog with a big image portfolio will be just fine.

- To get a free Wordpress blog…

2. Blogger

Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999, but later on was aquired by Google, so now Blogger is a part of Google’s big happy family and you can also become some sort of like that by making a blog there. Blogger also provides a simple way for you to make money with your blog by using Google’s AdSense program. So basically Blogger now only allows you to share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world in a form of a blog that is very flexible to personalize with themes and gadgets but even to make some money while you are writing just about anything you want and are interested in.

- To get a free Blogger blog…

3. LiveJournal

LiveJournal was one of the first services offering their users to make a blog, journal or diary. At the moment there are more than 20 million journals and communities created since the start of the service in 1999. Did you know that even the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has opened his own blog on the LiveJournal?
At LiveJournal there are few types of accounts some of wich are free and some are paid and for the paid services you just get more features and options. The Basic account type is a bit limited but is ad free, the Plus type of account is also free by is ad supported and it offers more featres. A Plus account should be ok for you should you decide to create an LJ (LiveJournal) blog, it comes with 1GB of space for uploading your images and it lacks just a few of the paid accounts extended features.

- To get a free LiveJournal blog…

And a few more interesting free blog services you should take a look at:
- Twitter – some sort of a short or micro blogging platform that is becoming quite popular.
- Fotolog – is for making a photo blog for photographers to share their pictures online.
- Blogabond – specially designed for making travel blogs with maps of your journeys.
- Snapvine – gives you the opportunity for voice blogging instead of using text blogging.
- Thumblogger – a specialized free adult blog hosting service, useful for adult webmasters.