The SEO “Cheat Sheet”

If you were given the task of creating an SEO “cheat sheet”, would you do it? Is SEO simple enough to condense into a resume-sized document or are there so many intricacies to the practice that it wouldn’t even be possible to condense a book on the subject to less than 300 pages?

Lets take SEO out of the equation and instead replace it with any profession. Is it possible to create a physician cheat sheet? Or on the opposite end of the spectrum, how about a McDonald’s employee cheat sheet? I assume a practicing M.D. would have a tough time narrowing his job down to a few key points. And I can tell you from first hand experience that you can’t even put all of a McDonald’s employees day-to-day responsibilities on a single piece of paper.

So how would you respond if you were asked to create a SEO cheat sheet? Would you refuse or would you do it and just try to cover as much as you could? Or would you laugh and ignore the question?