Check this site, its been a while since i used them but i had a great experience with them when i did need their services. 

http://www.crazyegg.com/

They provide heat maps too that show exactly where people click on each of your pages and all kinds of great stuff.   Maybe someone should develope a plugin using these guys...  

But to answer your question, without moding the code, a plugin, or using a third party service you cant do what you want to do, at least not yet out of the box.

The inexpesive way i suppose is you could just put a counter at the bottom of the pages you want to track and use that counter.  There is also a google analytics plugin in the store but it does not go as deep as you want it to go i dont believe.

Hope this helps you and welcome to Oxwall.

Hi Zackary,

Sorry about that, i guess i missunderstood your question.  Now i understand, you just want to know how many times someone has viewed a blog post, like forums do.

Although it would be a simple code mod to make, it would be best for a plugin because you would need to add a table field to the blogs table to store the page view totals. 

Good luck in taking the crash course and always ask if you need help with something

one more thing, this is kind of along a similar idea

http://www.oxwall.org/store/item/245#

Puru the dev is a nice guy, you might consider asking if he could add total views in his next version of the blog plugin.  I dont know if he will or if it is beyond the scope of the plugin or not, but it never hurts to ask him.  :)

Also refer him to this post.. :)

Thanks for the help I will send puru a PM to hear what he says, but still gonna complete crash course as it can help me in the future (Y)