I think that what you said made a bunch of sense. However, think about this, suppose you were to create a awesome headline? I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your blog, but suppose you added something that grabbed a person's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda vanilla. You might look at Yahoo's home page and watch how they create post headlines to get viewers interested. You might add a related video or a picture or two to get people interested about what you've written. In my opinion, it could make your blog a little bit more interesting.