What you said was actually very reasonable. However, what about this? suppose you were to create a awesome headline? I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your website, but suppose you added a post title to maybe grab folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You should peek at Yahoo's home page and note how they create post titles to grab people to open the links. You might try adding a video or a pic or two to grab people interested about what you've got to say. In my opinion, it would bring your website a little bit more interesting.
