Making sure your content offers something of a a value and producing clean code which goes along with it makes search engines quite happy.

I like to consider web-usability and accessibility a part of any SEO campaign and, in that spirit, I’d really like to see this background swapped for something more eye-friendly.

I had hoped to get a couple more opinions, but unfortunately Yoast didn’t have time to send through some thoughts, which meant the post was slightly shorter than I’d hoped, but I hope you still got the right idea from it all the same.

Your comment from your own experience, about “setting it and forgetting it,” I thought was actually the most unique on the page and helpful. That part is very rarely mentioned in other SEO posts and even with Yoast’s plug-in it’s hard work. [I hope that while you had them on the phone you were able to get a lot more specific pointers for your own use - I know I sure would if I ever had the chance to talk to Jeff.]