People love Top 10 Lists. They are easy to understand. Lists are all over the web for good reason. Lists are perfect for attracting user attention.
Lists are easy to make because of their structure - they force you to focus. Your blog or site is probably focused on something. Make a list about your blog's focus. Or if you want to give a dry blog a "personal touch" you can make many Movie Genre Lists. The more unique the list, the more interesting it will be.
It should be easy to make a list using your site's software. Lists of course do better if you add photos. Or you can make a list on another site, giving your own site a link back. The best site for lists is Ranker. See their traffic growth on Alexa - it's become a useful promotional tool and they also allow you to add quality links back to your site when you make a list (and on your profile when you set up your account). You can make lists very quickly using their interface and it saves you from having to add images.
Let's take an example using Ranker.com. Say I wanted to promote my movie site. I could make a list of the Top 10 Fratmen movies ever. I would add a link to my site to the list, getting a backlink, and my list would show up on the Rankers Only The Best Movies page. I could then either link to the list as a blog post, or I could embed the list on my blog, giving my blog content as well as distribution on Ranker.
Lists: a fun and easy way to quickly create content that everyone likes. Whether you post the list on your own site or use a 3rd party site like Ranker, you should consider this promotional tactic.