Are you looking for a new specialist SEO Agency?
We are Assertive.
- Award-winning agency
- Established since 2007
- Founder-led
- SEO Specialists


Working with amazing UK + International Brands






















































Welcome to assertive
We're a Growth Focused
SEO Agency
Assertive is a PERFORMANCE digital marketing agency focused on driving client revenue growth. We offer an array of high quality digital marketing services that help clients drive GROWTH.
We blend professional in-house SEO expertise with tailored PPC, Social & Brand Building campaigns to help your business grow. From selling more products to generating more leads whatever your growth objective Assertive can help.
- We deliver powerful & effective integrated marketing strategies
- We employ some of the best SEO expertise with proprietary SEO software
- We can reduce CaC & Churn & Improve ROI
- We can grow/scale PPC campaigns & return on ad spend
- We can help your brand grow via social

Case Studies
View case studies →Pharmacy Online
Online dispensary medications including over the counter & prescription medicines.
SCI-MX Nutrition
One of the UK's leading sports nutrition & protein supplement retailers.
Lenovo EMEA
Global computer manufacturer Assertive supports search across EMEA markets.
BNP Paribas Cardif
International insurance group Warranty Direct programme growth.
Audley Travel
Tailor-made luxury travel bespoke itineraries crafted by destination specialists.
Emma Sleep
Award-winning sleep products mattresses, pillows and bedding.
Orangeries UK
Bespoke orangeries design, manufacture and installation across the UK.
Justerini & Brooks
Fine wine & spirits merchant one of the world's oldest, established 1749.
Craft Irish Whiskey Co.
Ultra-luxury, super-premium Irish whiskey crafted in small batches.
Services we provide
Our Digital Marketing Services
- 01 / ORGANIC SEARCH
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
Reputable, Sustainable & Ethical SEO Services that are geared towards driving website & brand organic growth. We offer out of the box, unconventional SEO that's geared to results, not empty promises.
Learn more - 02 / PAID MEDIA
Pay Per Click (PPC)
We're a specialist PPC agency in London offering full pay per click management services for businesses looking for better ROI, better return on ad spend & a more UX/CRO focused approach to conversion.
Learn more - 03 / SOCIAL
Social Media Marketing
Gain brand recognition, drive product awareness, build your audience & grow with our professionally managed social media marketing services. Fully tailored ROI driven paid & organic social media marketing services.
Learn more - 04 / AUTHORITY
Link Building & Digital PR
Our digital marketing services include scalable, efficient link building campaigns & DFY digital PR services. We drive strong organic growth & brand awareness with bespoke, tailored link acquisition, growth & digital PR campaigns.
Learn more - 05 / CONTENT
Content Marketing
We research, plan & create content marketing strategies that deliver results. We curate & create content that speaks volumes about your product, service offering or brand. We offer DFY content creation & content marketing.
Learn more - 06 / CONVERSION
Conversion Optimisation
We help brands & businesses internationally with their conversion optimisation efforts. Reduce cost per acquisition & improve conversion rates with our CRO services. Increase conversions from pre-existing & new traffic to drive ROI.
Learn more - 07 / AI / LLM
LLM Optimisation
Want your website to be cited in LLM responses? If you want your website, content or brand offering cited in LLM responses across Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, Claude and other LLMs we provide a range of LLM optimisation services to help drive up citations, clicks and conversions.
Learn more - 08 / RECOVERY
Ranking & Traffic Recovery
Want to recover lost rankings and traffic? We provide full ranking and traffic recovery services for businesses/websites whose rankings and traffic has tanked. We deal with all types of ranking loss from Google core update losses through to domain & CMS migration, indexing issues, manual actions, penalties & more.
Learn more - 09 / AUDITS
SEO Audits
Looking for a professional SEO audit to help with diagnostic, analysis or recovery? We provide bespoke SEO audits to deal with everything from technical SEO health checks through to recovery audits that deal with link spam, SEO issues, manual actions, penalties, poor quality content, AI content and more.
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Welcome to assertive
Experts in Digital Marketing from SEO to Paid Social.
We are proud to combine the best talent across SEO, PPC & Digital Marketing into a performance team where collaboration, upskilling and moving fast are key. We deliver high quality digital marketing campaigns that help clients to see real world growth from increased leads & sales through to return on investment (real ROI and not just vanity metrics).
not your typical seo agency.
We're a Specialist SEO Agency that gets organic growth.
We're more than just words, we have nearly 2 decades of history in the SEO space. We help clients to rank prominently in Google across traditional SERPS, AI Overviews & AI mode. Our SEO team includes world-class SEO specialists who've been doing SEO as long as Google has been around we understand all of the disciplines of modern SEO from professional SEO auditing & maximum technical SEO compliance through to link building, digital PR & content production. Our results speak for themselves.
Client Testimonials
What our clients say about the service we deliver.

BNP Paribas Cardif
Carolina Viola, Marketing
We worked with Assertive on our Warranty Direct insurance brand, we found the team to be very knowledgeable and proactive, we saw a notable increase in the volume of policies sold.

Oxford City Council
Oxford City Council
Assertive has helped us with the creation and delivery of a new website. Very pleased with the results, we can now fully manage the website independently.

SCI-MX
Gemma Peakman, Head of Digital @ SCI-MX
We've worked with Assertive for over 2 years, in that time not only have they delivered a new revamped website, they've helped grow our website traffic substantially.

Larisa Lucaciu
Larisa Lucaciu, Head of Marketing & BD
Assertive have provided an efficient & effective SEO service delivering results. They've been able to adapt to our requirements & have helped to leverage strong traffic growth from Google.

Exceptional SEO Services & Auditing
An SEO Agency Ranking All Its Own Assets from Audits to SEO.
Assertive prides itself on ranking for the very things it offers as a testament to our SEO capabilities. We rank our own sites including our specialist SEO audit sub brand, our search console sub brand & more. When it comes to delivering SEO & ranking strategies that work, look no further.
Assertive has been established since 2007 — we're one of the UK's longest running SEO agencies.
not your typical seo agency.
High Quality SEO Services That Helps Businesses Generate More Revenue
We help brands grow their customer base by combining the latest SEO techniques with tried and tested SEO processes. Our SEO engineers work day in day out with search engines like Google, Bing, Baidu as well as AI & LLM platforms such as Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, chatGPT and other platforms. From keyword research to fully fledged SEO audits covering website crawlability & accessibility through to detailed competitor analysis, content strategies & link building via digital PR.
Clients come to Assertive for SEO because we've been around since 2007 & have significant SEO expertise. We've helped clients around the globe in all different niches to rank for target keywords & to benefit not only from increased website traffic but also more sales, revenue, conversions and enquiries.
We apply modern SEO discipline to tried and tested SEO testing methods along with best-practice to deliver SEO campaigns that work.
We're familiar with every facet of SEO from website crawls to technical SEO covering rendering, HTTP headers, internal links, indexability, anchors & lots more through to producing top quality content that's aligned with end user intent, E-E-A-T / YMYL.
We have a straightforward client onboarding process from enquiry to SEO campaign kick off – we'll do an initial discovery call and preliminary analysis to see where your website sits organically by looking at your Google Search Console & Google Analytics data.
We can then generate and deliver a proposal or request for proposal before onboarding you as an Assertive client.

Client Case Study
How We Helped pharmacyonline.co.ukto grow their organic traffic & product sales.
We work with pharmacyonline.co.uk to help them with their SEO efforts. Since starting with the client back in 2023 we've helped them to rank number 1 in Google for thousands of medicine and pharmacy related keywords. We took them from 50 clicks a day on average to 2000+ clicks per day. We increased product sales significantly. We helped to overcome significant technical and bespoke CMS issues, implemented a dev site, fixed the issues with developers & then moved on to a content + link building strategy. Organic visibility is up 100s of %, the client is also being cited more in Google AI overviews — subsequently their ecommerce performance is significantly better.
40x
Daily Clicks
#1
Google Rankings
100s%
Visibility Growth
an agency you can trust.
Why Businesses Trust Assertive to Deliver Their SEO Services
We've been around since 2007 & in that time, we've built a reputation for getting clients exceptional results in organic search from increased rankings & qualified traffic to sales & ROI.
- Assertive media was founded in 2007 & is one of the UK's longest running SEO agencies
- Our SEO hiring process is heavily vetted so we get the best of the best
- Assertive is founder led with Daniel Foley Carter
- Award winning including 3× Drum Awards winner
- Thousands of SEOs globally use our SEO Tools including SEO Stack
- Extensive SEO Expertise with 40+ strong team
- Experience working with large & corporate businesses
- Full service SEO agency
- Data-backed SEO testing to remain up to date with latest Google updates
- SEO Support for Google, Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo & Yandex
- Flexible SEO Support & Consultancy
From the Assertive blog
Field notes on AI search, technical SEO and paid media — written by the people delivering the work.
How Backlinks Influence AI Search Rankings
AI is rewriting the rules of search. Backlinks were the backbone of any SEO strategy for years, serving as an authority signal that directly influenced a website’s ranking.

Hannah O'neill SEO Copywriter
16 May 2026

Why eCommerce Brands Still Need SEO Despite Investing in Paid Advertising
Paid advertising can generate fast traffic and quick sales for eCommerce brands, but it is no longer enough on its own to sustain long-term growth. SEO remains essential because it helps online stores build consistent visibility, reduce cus

Hannah O'neill SEO Copywriter
8 May 2026

Google’s Agent-Friendly Web Guidance: What It Actually Means in Practice
Google recently published a short guide on making websites more agent-friendly. It’s written for developers, which means a lot of the practical value gets lost on non-technical site owners.

Stefan Krcelic SEO Lead
5 May 2026

Traditional SEO vs LLM Optimisation: What Actually Matters Now?
SEO is dead, and today it’s all about AI. You’ve probably heard that repeatedly and are wondering how to navigate organic growth in a world where SEO no longer matters.

Hannah O'neill SEO Copywriter
29 April 2026
Our SEO Services
A range of services that cover every part of modern SEO.
- 01
SEO Consultancy
Professional, tailored SEO consultancy to support your business needs on a more ad hoc basis.
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Keyword Research
Keyword research that looks at demand, intent, trends & scope for use within a strategy.
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SEO Audits
Professional audits that evaluate organic performance, website architecture, content profiling, domain & brand auditing.
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International SEO
Bespoke international SEO strategies including foreign keyword research, on-site SEO, content & digital PR.
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Content Creation
High quality content creation services to facilitate new content strategies & to revamp existing content.
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Digital PR
Earn powerful links through digital PR and manual link building to build domain authority, trust & rankings.
Learn more - 07
Link Acquisition
High authority links, media coverage & links that make a difference to your brand and organic performance.
Learn more - 08
SEO Testing
Data driven SEO testing services. AI & data driven insights to help improve organic performance.
Learn more - 09
Data Warehousing
Professional data warehousing solutions for Google Search Console and Google Analytics data.
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- Direct line: 0207 965 7623
- Email: hello@assertive-media.co.uk
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