About

Learn more about Assertive, our history, who we are, our ethos & why clients choose to work with our established agency.

Assertive: Not Just By Name, But By Nature

 

Assertive is an international SEO agency with staff globally. We’re based out of the UK but we serve clients in international markets.

  • We’ve been around since 2007
  • Strong client retention over a 1, 3 and 5 year period
  • Strong demonstrated expertise in SEO, PPC, Social & Conversion
  • Full in house team training & skill development programmes
  • Proprietary SEO tools (https://www.seo-stack.io)
  • Big data approach to SEO
  • We have extensive experience working with larger brands & corporate businesses

We’ve been around a long time – so we’ve seen the digital marketing agency change significantly – we actively promote internal training & skill development to ensure our clients get the highest quality of work.

 

Assertive Overview

Vision

Our vision remains to grow sustainably off the back of organic & brand awareness & to grow a team of marketing professionals who are passionate about their role.

Mission

Our mission is to continue to scale & double operation sizes over the next 2-3 years as well as expanding our offices. We're also strengthening our positions in international markets.

Core Values

Our core values are based on delivering ROI in the most efficient way. We believe in focusing on priority for clients as well as building a team of top tier marketing professionals.

We Provide Enterprise SEO Solutions

 

Assertive focuses on supporting medium to large organisation with enterprise SEO solutions, we also support clients with paid marketing, conversion optimisation & auditing.

Since our inception in 2007 we’ve been able to support large, recognised brands globally including Lenovo, Allianz, BNP Paribas Brands, Virgin, Easy Group, SAGE, Supreme Imports & more.

We’ve focused as a business on working with medium to larger organisations as typically this is where budgets are sufficient for campaigns to drive strong growth. 

 

We've Built A Professional SEO SaaS

 

To help maximise the outcome from any SEO campaign, Assertive embarked on rebuilding Google Search Console + integrating it with smart AI annotations, SEO testing, query counting & more.

We’ve done this to improve SEO campaign result outcomes & to provide data backed recommendations when it comes to technical SEO, content, link acquisition and SEO testing.

We are strong advocators of using first party data for SEO campaigns – big data = better decisions = better outcomes.

Our tool is SEO stack.

 

We Operate A Series of Sub Brands

Assertive operates a series of sub brands including SEO audits IO & SEO stack. The founder (Daniel Foley Carter) also used to run a consultancy which has since been merged into the agency as of 2024.

The ranking snapshots here are to demonstrate our passion for ranking our own assets.

Our sub brands cover different areas of SEO – where SEO Audits IO offers a bespoke, high quality SEO auditing service and where SEO stack provides a tool stack, data warehouse & workflow for SEOs globally.

Across the group we’re over 40+ strong and growing year on year.

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The Team Behind Assertive

Learn more about the fantastic people who make Assertive what it is.

Daniel Carter (Foley)

Founder / Senior SEO

Daniel Foley Carter is one of the founders of Assertive. Daniels SEO expertise dates back to 1998/1999 so with over 24+ years of experience Daniel is able to deliver across all aspects of SEO - with strong technical, strategic & analytical skills. Daniel provides internal training for SEOs who join the Assertive team. Daniel founded Assertive after a few years having worked for SEO agencies in London before embarking on his own journey to build a full service agency that's built on performance & delivery.

Carl Panepinto

Senior Account Manager

Carl Panepinto is one of the lead account managers at Assertive - dealing with account management, client satisfaction, reviewing overall delivery as well as business QC. Carl has some SEO experience combined with strong business acumen, strong communication and organisational skills. Carl's background includes affiliate businesses as well as casino & betting site creation - this has helped Carl to better identify opportunities for improvement during client liaison & management.

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