YES! Absolutly
You should grab a nice keyword list of about 100 keywords averaging about 100 searches a day in a GOOD NICHE
Then set to work...
The key is to write more. Don't worry so much about quality just chuck out as many articles based around your keywords as possible. I suggest using Google keyword tool because it's fucking fantastic
What I like to do is throw in a bunch of LSI because on page optimization works a treat for this! You can find a bunch of these by using the related keywords section in the Goolge keyword tool. PLUS
REMEMBER: grab the URL's and put them in a text file. Check back in a couple of days to see if they're indexed
SEnuke makes that last bit easy as pie. You can find it somewhere with Google