I think that what you published made a ton of sense. But, what about this? suppose you were to create a killer headline? I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your website, but suppose you added a post title that makes people desire more? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You could look at Yahoo's front page and note how they write post titles to grab people interested. You might add a related video or a related picture or two to get people excited about everything've written. In my opinion, it might bring your blog a little bit more interesting.