[stingraycharles]

I'm not sure, - that could be a way, but only if you actually enjoy writing those articles.

Just thinking out loud, your time could also be spend editorially adding more and more subjects and quality lists. The whole problem with such a site is that you need to maintain some level of quality, which is best maintained by attracting people that care about that quality. If you have a lot of quality lists with quality subjects, the next thing you need to ensure is that Google (and other search engines) pick up on that.

If I search for "emacs color themes", for example, you want listry to be the #1 match in Google with a list of links to color themes.

That, and just balls: try to get some popular bloggers to cover your site. If they like the concept, they won't mind vouching for you.