That is basically your site's speed. Matt Cutts always include this among the 200+ factors that affect SEO
Great additions, those can easily be done if the website is wordpress based.
Recently I came across a very informative article from Wordtracker and got some useful information. To summarize, to get better rankings all this...
Negative SEO does not work, most of the time it would actually help the website you're trying to turn down.
From the very basics, Matt Cutts always says that a quality backlick is a "natural" backlink.
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Just to add some, background color does not suit your theme. I think it is better to be of lighter color.
It is important to be straight-forward to avoid loss of interest. Be creative too!
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