I think everything said was very logical. However, what about this? what if you added a little content? I mean, I don’t wish to tell you how to run your website, however what if you added a post title to maybe get people’s attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You could glance at Yahoo’s front page and see how they create article headlines to grab viewers to click. You might try adding a video or a related pic or two to grab people interested about what you’ve written. In my opinion, it might make your website a little bit more interesting.