If you'd like to promote FR for free, there IS a way....create a web page, include some text content about conservatism on your page, and link to FR. This tends to put FR higher on the search engine results.
Right now, per Google, there are some 2,590 links to the FR main page. There are about 36,000 links to whitehouse.gov, (I mention this for comparison purposes) and about 2,780 to a certain pro-demoncrap site that won't be named.
So, we really could do a bit better....
Agreed. The web is an "under the mouse" interface and the more links we get under the pointer the better. I've often found putting www.freerepublic.com in your email signature helps to distribute that link.