Everything wrote made a bunch of sense. But, what about this? what if you added a little information? I ain't saying your content is not good., but suppose you added a title that makes people want more? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little boring. You ought to peek at Yahoo's front page and note how they write post titles to get viewers interested. You might add a video or a pic or two to grab people excited about what you've written. In my opinion, it might bring your posts a little livelier.