Inside the book

Sixteen chapters. One connected 90-day system.

The playbook moves from commercial goals and customer language through page improvements, safe technical checks and measurement, then helps you decide what to do next.

Front cover of The Small Business DIY SEO Playbook.

Built to be used

A reference guide with a working rhythm.

The first reading takes you through a complete cycle in order. After that, the book becomes a practical reference for individual pages, research, technical questions and monthly reviews.

Every stage is tied to a useful output: a goal sentence, access register, baseline, customer-language bank, keyword-to-page map, editing brief, controlled technical log or scorecard.

Author
Denny Cartwright
Publisher
KSJ Growth
Edition
2026, first edition
Print length
170 pages
Publication
26 July 2026
Paperback ISBN
979-8189171123

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Contents

The complete route, chapter by chapter.

  1. What SEO can and cannot do
  2. How Google finds and understands a website
  3. Set the goal and record the baseline
  4. Understand what customers actually search for
  5. Practical keyword research without an expensive toolkit
  6. Create the keyword-to-page map
  7. Improve the pages that make money
  8. Publish content that deserves to exist
  9. Build honest local visibility
  10. Make the website easy to navigate
  11. Complete the technical checks safely
  12. Earn authority without buying links
  13. Prepare for AI-assisted search without chasing myths
  14. Measure progress without obsessing over daily rankings
  15. Follow the complete 90-day DIY SEO plan
  16. Know when to stop doing it yourself

Six reusable appendices

Worksheets and checks you can return to.

The appendices turn the method into working documents rather than leaving the ideas on the page.

Appendix A

Plain-English SEO glossary

Appendix B

Keyword research worksheet

Appendix C

Keyword-to-page map

Appendix D

Commercial-page editing brief

Appendix E

Monthly SEO scorecard

Appendix F

Provider selection checklist

A deliberate boundary

Useful DIY with a clear point to get help.

The closing chapter separates controlled, reversible work from migrations, security incidents, widespread deindexing and other high-risk changes that deserve specialist support.

Read the Chapter 16 excerpt
A decision guide for choosing DIY, done-with-you or specialist SEO support.
Choose support according to the risk and resources involved.
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