I think everything said made a lot of sense. However, consider this, suppose you were to write a killer post title? I ain't saying your content is not good, but what if you added something that grabbed a person's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda boring. You could glance at Yahoo's front page and watch how they create article headlines to get viewers to click. You might try adding a video or a related pic or two to get people excited about everything've written. In my opinion, it might make your blog a little livelier.