I think that what you said made a lot of sense. However, think about this, suppose you composed a catchier title? I am not suggesting your content is not solid., but suppose you added a title to possibly get folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda vanilla. You should look at Yahoo's home page and watch how they create article titles to get viewers to open the links. You might add a video or a related pic or two to get people interested about everything've written. Just my opinion, it could bring your posts a little bit more interesting.