I believe everything posted made a lot of sense. However, what about this? what if you were to create a killer post title? I am not suggesting your content is not good., however suppose you added something that makes people want more? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little vanilla. You ought to peek at Yahoo's front page and note how they write post titles to get people to click. You might try adding a video or a related pic or two to grab people interested about everything've got to say. Just my opinion, it might bring your website a little livelier.