I think that what you said was actually very reasonable. However, what about this? suppose you wrote a catchier title? I mean, I don't wish to tell you how to run your website, however what if you added something to possibly get a person's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You should look at Yahoo's front page and watch how they create article titles to grab viewers to click. You might add a related video or a related picture or two to grab readers excited about everything've written. In my opinion, it would make your blog a little bit more interesting.