I think that what you posted made a ton of sense. But, think on this, what if you were to create a awesome headline? I am not saying your content is not good., however suppose you added a headline to possibly grab folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You should look at Yahoo's home page and see how they create news headlines to get viewers to open the links. You might add a related video or a related pic or two to grab people excited about everything've written. In my opinion, it might make your website a little bit more interesting.