I believe what you said made a ton of sense. But, think about this, what if you were to create a awesome title? I ain't saying your content is not good, however suppose you added a title to maybe grab folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You could peek at Yahoo's front page and see how they write news titles to get viewers to open the links. You might try adding a video or a related pic or two to grab readers interested about what you've written. In my opinion, it would make your posts a little livelier.
