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  • 13 sketches

Blitz SEO

The Focused Playbook to Win Google, AI Search, and the Agentic Web

By Ilias Ism

Blitz SEO is the focused playbook for founders, marketers and small teams who want buyers from search without publishing a thousand posts nobody reads. Pick one to three keywords that buyers type with a card in hand, put everything you have behind them in a fast weekly loop, and expand only after you win, across Google, AI answers and the software agents that now shop on a customer's behalf.

Store links for Google Play Books, Kindle, and paperback go here when the listings are live. Until then, every chapter below links to an essay or skill you can read now.

Cover of Blitz SEO: The Focused Playbook to Win Google, AI Search, and the Agentic Web by Ilias Ism

The book

What’s inside

The book fills in one loop across ten chapters. Each chapter ends with a Blitz move: one concrete thing to do before the next chapter.

  1. The Blitz Loop

    One to three money keywords, one weekly feedback loop, and the rule for when to expand.

  2. Page 1 as the brief

    How to read a results page in five minutes, then find proven page ideas in competitor Top Pages, filtered by Volume x CPC.

  3. Proof nobody can fake

    The screen-recording walkthrough that turns one afternoon of testing into a comparison page with real screenshots and prices.

  4. Page 1 on a new domain

    How a brand-new domain gets in front of Page 1 buyers this week, through the lists, threads, and videos that already rank.

  5. Links from real partners

    Why Domain Rating fools founders, how a backlink magnet earns links while you sleep, and partnership outreach that gets answered.

  6. AI answers and agents

    How AI answer engines reach consensus, and the four-layer stack that lets software agents find you, trust you and buy from you.

Sketches

Inside the Playbook

Each idea starts from first principles, with a plain analogy and a stick-figure sketch. These are 4 of the 13.

  • Left: a worried stick figure props up a leaning pile labeled 1,000 slop posts while traffic stays flat. Right: a calm stick figure holds a magnifying glass in the sunlight, and the rays meet on 3 money keywords until they catch fire.

    Chapter 1

    Spread thin versus Blitz focus

    Same sun, no extra energy. Focused on three money keywords, it catches fire.

  • Five numbered stepping stones, each with a card below it. Unaware: X posts, Reels, TikTok. Problem-aware: LinkedIn, newsletters. Solution-aware: YouTube, Reddit, best X pages. Product-aware: X vs Y pages, alternatives. Most-aware: pricing page, signup page. A buyer sets off from the first stone and a flag labeled Money page stands on the last. Social and video teach, search wakes up at stage three, and search pages close the sale.

    Chapter 2

    Five stages, each on its natural surface

    Social posts and video do the teaching, search wakes up at stage three, and search pages close the sale.

  • A stick figure with headphones records a screen while testing five apps and talking out loud. A lightbulb says Aha, and the result is an honest comparison table and real screenshots.

    Chapter 4

    The screen-recording walkthrough

    Record yourself testing five apps out loud. The transcript becomes an honest comparison table and real screenshots.

  • Three panels. One: a relaxed person with a coffee says Need a hospital checkup. Two: a personal agent ticks off public prices, doctor reviews, the intake form and email. Three: the agent hands back a card that says Booked, Tue 10 AM. Websites the human visited: 0.

    Chapter 10

    What happens when no human visits your website

    You ask, an agent compares prices and reviews, and the booking comes back. Websites the human visited: zero.

Chapters

Table of contents

10 chapters in 4 parts. Each one points to live essays and agent skills on the same subject.

Part I

The Focus Engine

Chapters 1 to 3

  1. Chapter 1: The Blitz Loop

    Most teams spread SEO across dozens of pages and move none of them. The Blitz Loop puts every edit and every link behind one to three money keywords, measures once a week, and adds a keyword only after the current one wins.

  2. Chapter 2: The Five-Stage Customer Journey

    Buyers cross five stages of awareness, and each stage has a surface where it lives: short posts and Reels first, YouTube and Reddit in the middle, search pages at the end. Blitz SEO starts with the two stages nearest the sale, because those searches are the money keywords.

  3. Chapter 3: The SERP Is the Brief

    Google prints the answer key ten times on Page 1, so read it before you write: page types, title hooks, extras, and the weakest site that still ranks. Then pull proven page ideas from a competitor's Top Pages report and keep the ones where Volume x CPC shows buyers behind the search.

Part II

Pages & Surfaces That Win

Chapters 4 to 5

  1. Chapter 4: Proof of Work Kills AI Slop

    Most best-of lists are rewrites of each other, and AI made that free. Record your screen while you test your product and the top five rivals on the same task, and the transcript becomes screenshots, verdicts, and a comparison table nobody can fake.

  2. Chapter 5: Owning Page One Without Waiting a Year

    A new domain will not reach the top three next month, but the pages that already rank belong to people you can talk to. Get into the listicles, threads, videos, and directories on Page 1 this week while your own comparison and use-case pages grow up.

Part III

Real Authority & Human Outreach

Chapters 6 to 7

  1. Chapter 6: Backlink Magnets and Why Domain Rating Lies

    Domain Rating counts links to a domain and cannot see whether one person reads the page your link sits on. Check organic traffic, traffic to the exact page, and ranking keywords instead, then build the free tool or benchmark your market links to without being asked.

  2. Chapter 7: Partnerships Over Cold Spam

    Cold blasts get ignored because they offer the author of a ranking page nothing. Send ten personal notes with one real offer instead, such as a full account to test, a 50% recurring affiliate share, or sharing their article with your audience.

Part IV

Sprints, AI Search, and the Agentic Web

Chapters 8 to 10

  1. Chapter 8: The 30-Day Blitz Sprint

    Four calm weeks on one page: the brief and the page first, Page 1 surfaces and internal links second, ranking links and partnerships third, then read the numbers and tighten. Agent skills take the repetitive work, and every session ends with something shipped.

  2. Chapter 9: Brand Consensus and AI Search

    AI assistants recommend whatever the listicles, threads, reviews, and videos agree on, so a page that praises itself counts for almost nothing. Audit what five assistants say about you, get mentioned in the sources they cite, and make yourself easy to identify with one entity home and the same bio everywhere.

  3. Chapter 10: Winning the Agentic Web

    Software agents now compare prices, read reviews, and sign up or book without a human opening a website. Four layers decide whether they pick you: public pricing and reviews they can trust, text they can read, a SKILL.md that teaches them the product, and an API, CLI, or MCP endpoint that lets them finish the job.

il.ly/blitz

Sprint sheet and skill files

The companion to the book: every checklist from the appendix, ready to tick off in a tab, and the agent skills that do the typing.

The weekly Blitz Loop

Run this once a week for each money keyword. It takes about an hour.

The rule for expanding: add a new keyword only when the current one is in the top three, or when the log shows you are stuck for a reason effort can't fix.

The five-minute SERP check

Search the keyword in a private window. Write one line for each.

Then the money filter

The screen-recording brief

One afternoon, one recording, one page nobody can copy.

Before the page goes live

The partnership outreach checklist

Ten notes, written one at a time.

Before paying for any placement

The agentic readiness checklist

Four layers, from the bottom up.

Trust

Read

Learn

Act

Skill files

A skill is a plain text file that tells an AI agent how to do one job your way. One command installs the whole library into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

npx skills add Illyism/seo-skills

No coding agent? Open a skill and paste the text into any AI assistant. Browse every skill or read the source on GitHub.

Updates and corrections

No corrections to the first edition so far. If you find a mistake, message me on X at @illyism and the fix gets listed here.