I believe everything posted was actually very reasonable. However, consider this, suppose you were to create a awesome headline? I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your website, however what if you added something to maybe get a person's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little boring. You could look at Yahoo's front page and watch how they create article headlines to grab people interested. You might try adding a video or a related picture or two to grab readers excited about everything've got to say. In my opinion, it could bring your blog a little bit more interesting.
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