I think what you published made a great deal of sense. However, what about this? what if you added a little information? I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your blog, but suppose you added a headline that grabbed people's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little plain. You could glance at Yahoo's home page and watch how they create post headlines to get people to click. You might add a related video or a picture or two to get people excited about what you've written. In my opinion, it might bring your website a little bit more interesting.
