I believe what you said was actually very reasonable. But, think about this, suppose you composed a catchier title? I am not saying your content is not good, but suppose you added a headline that makes people desire more? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda vanilla. You could look at Yahoo’s home page and see how they write post headlines to grab viewers to open the links. You might try adding a video or a picture or two to get people interested about everything’ve written. In my opinion, it could make your posts a little bit more interesting.