Weird things writers do (on the internet)

No, not just that general category of weird things writers do, like watch you too closely because they're clearly trying to figure out how to transcribe your behavior into a character sketch that will be incorporated into a character you'd never want your behavior ascribed to.  And not weird stuff like spending 42 minutes engaged in a deeply personal and hurtful internal debate about whether it's okay to use that semi-colon.  Not that other weird thing that involves an eccentric hat and a fake foreign accent.  I apologize for that on behalf of writers everywhere.  We just can't help ourselves sometimes.  Which is why we do that weird thing with our trash cans on trash day.  Sorry.  It's a compulsion.

Specifically, I'm talking the weird things that writers do on the internet.  Here's the latest:
Many agents suggest that writers with professional websites (as opposed to whatever this is), look more attractive to agents and publishers, because they appear to have a grasp on using the internet for networking and marketing.  As a result, lots of writers create websites and blogs and whatnot, in hopes that someday an agent or publisher is going to Google them and find their website.  (The next part of this fantasy goes like this: "Gosh, what a great website.  I was on the fence, but I am definitely going to offer this writer a multi-book contract.")

I never bothered, because...well, because I was the literary equivalent of a cave-dwelling ascetic hermit.  I didn't publish.  I just wrote.  Mostly as a form of self-punishment.  Then, two years ago, I decided to try to get published.  Two painful years of rejections later, I've got a handful of short story publications and a few more coming out in spring.  So, at long last, as I contemplate beginning another round of queries for a novel, I have done that weird thing. 

I got a website.  Under my own name.  To talk about...my writing.  To post links to my publications.  To generally stick my ass out there, in hopes that some agent or publisher will Google me and think, "Gosh, what a great website."  (Why is it that agents and publishers talk like Eddie Haskell in my head?  I don't know.)  So I've put up my little bio, a page with links to my publications, some pictures of my cats (OF COURSE), and I've started a blog.

Here's the dilemma: when you start a new blog, how sad and embarrassing is it when you don't have any comments on your blog?  So then how to create traffic to a blog I've just started?  On my writing board, I figure I'll ask some people there to go over and take a look, make some comments.  I've debated whether to call upon my hoodies on Vox to make a similar sacrificial effort.  That is, the folks who are in my neighborhood, who actually know who I am in real life, because I don't want to have a "leak" effect, where the two blogs are confuzzled, thereby destroying the comfort of relative anonymity I have as Redzilla.  What do you think?