I'll very happily disprove that, and sorry to pull rank and seniority here but after 8 years on here, I really do know what works and what doesn't. On average I have over 20-30K views every month. I can show you articles whit low view-count that made tons of cash, and articles with huge view-count that made $3. Sure, out of 10.000 views you're bound to get a few reads, but that number is negligible. What will happen though is potentially increased traffic later to your article by readers because it got indexed by Google very well. That however happens later, like even weeks or months later.