what free websites are the best for blogging?

[Andrew]

I like to give people advice.

[Brandon]

How about real life. Go to college, study psychiatry, and then go out and help people.

[Jake]

For traditional blogs (free sanding sites with no community connection)

Google's Blogger.com is a rare one with absolutely no paid upgrades (you can buy a custom domain name from them or someone else)

Wordpress.com is a free hosted version of the industry standard Wordpress blog engine used for some 17% of the top 1 Million sites, so what you use there can be applied more professionally in the future, they have paid upgrades for custom domain names, earning revenue, etc.

[WealthyChange]

There are several sites that you can make use of for free blogging. Some of the ones I use are Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Wetpaint Central, Squidoo, and Hubpages. They are free, they have great themes, and Wordpress even have several plugins that you can make use of in order to optimize your site for the search engines.