The answer is yes. Stop being silly.
But, it sure as heck will not feel very satisfying spending hours on a blog post, only to stare at that view counter staying stubbornly at "0".
Trust me, this is first hand experience.
You made a blog, so I am going to assume that you actually would like people to read what you write, otherwise you might as well just be writing in a diary in your drawer (and knowing how nosy kids/siblings/jealous spouses are that will probably actually get more pageviews than a new blog).
I found a lot of advice about getting traffic to your blog out there on the interweb.
Some advocate that if you just make great content, then people will eventually find you (these are probably the same kind of people that believe that size doesn't matter and the meek shall inherit the Earth).
Some promote commenting on other blogs, which will hopefully prompt some people to click on your name and go to your blog (better, but still seems a bit optimistic to me).
Others say that using blogroll sites like Blogsurfer or Blogclicker, which works on kind of a "you click mine and I click yours" principle (now we're talking).
I've also seen some posts recommending that you try to find some online forums that discuss the subject of your blog and try posting there (seems fairly reasonable).
Finally there's also the option of trying to get people from social article sites like Reddit or Digg to view your stuff (Yes!).
My blog promotion initially consisted of going to a few gaming forums and putting a link to my blog in my signature on my posts.
This actually worked decently (as in, it brought in maybe 10-20 pageviews a day, when I posted 2-3 posts that day) and brought me up from the 3-6 views I had for the first few days.
Then my blogging friend told me about blogsurfer and blogclicker.
Blogsurfer is nice and easy to use, since you can just go in and submit your blog without signing up or anything.
Simply submit it and you'll be included in the blogroll (you'll automatically also drop out again as new blogs are added, so you have to go back several times a day to resubmit, but it's a process of less than 30 seconds so no biggie).
I have zero hope that any of the views I was going to get from Blogsurfer would be anything other than just people being forced to see the landing page of my blog and then moving on.
But I was positively surprised when I found out that it actually had a bounce rate of about 90% (meaning that 1 out of 10 people that saw my page from Blogsurfer actually clicked on into a post on my blog).
I got maybe 50 views a day with Blogsurfer, so the end result was really only maybe 5 "good" pageviews, but still, everything counts in this startup phase, and 5 pageviews was still pretty good compared to the 10-20 pageviews I had a day.
However the big revelation for my blog came from Reddit.
Reddit can be a tricky place to break through for a new person that does not already have an account there and know how the site works.
I am still trying to find out just what the successful formula for a good Reddit post is.
Basically Reddit allows users to submit a link from the internet, add a headline and then share it with the millions of other Reddit users.
They can then up vote or down vote the link, and of course the more up votes your link gets, the more people will see it as it gets moved up in the ranks.
Users accrue "link karma", so that whenever a link you posted get an up vote you will gain one point of link karma, which helps people identify profiles that just post crap.
Which makes things tough, when you're starting a new profile and want to submit links with 0 karma in the bank.
People are going to be extremely skeptical about your links until you get some karma under your belt, so the initial build up of karma can be really really hard.
The important thing to keep in mind is that Reddit is not there to be the recipient of your spamming of your own blog posts.
It is perfectly "legal" to submit your own stuff on Reddit, but everything in moderation and if you keep posting your own stuff and nothing else, then you'll probably quickly find yourself in bad standing with the community.
So try to find some genuinely interesting links to submit and maybe post a few comments (you can also get karma from comments, tho these are separate from the link karma points).
Do be careful about trying to do too much at once though, as one of my friends found out, Reddit has a sensitive spam filter for new users, and if you try to submit a bunch of links and comments right off the bat, then you might find your account banned.
The key to Reddit success, as I have found so far at least, is to use "subreddits".
Subreddits are specific segments of Reddit that exist to cover a certain category such as gaming, movies, books etc.
Always post your link in a relevant subreddit and never in the main Reddit channel.
Not only will your post get buried in the main channel, but it will also undoubtedly get down voted to hell because the chance that it is going to appeal to the large mainstream channel is infinitely small.
By posting on a subreddit you know you're going to be sharing your work with a community that actually is interested in the stuff that you are writing about.
This has really been the breakthrough traffic for me so far and has skyrocketed my traffic from sub 100 pageviews a day to have at least 500+ pageviews a day (as long as new quality posts are submitted to the relevant subreddits).
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