(PRWEB) February 08, 2012

The independent authority on Search vendors in Canada, canada.tospeos.com, has released their list of the ten best social media marketing companies in the online marketing industry for the month of February 2012. The list of the best SMO companies contains companies which offer a service to assist companies in managing and maintaining their various accounts on popular social networks which involve communicating directly with customers and other users. These services help customers create their brand image in communication for potential customers interested in their products and/or services while improving upon the communication with their current customers.

The Top 10 Social Media Optimization Companies for February 2012 are:

1) Search Engine People

2) HigherVisibility

3) Outrider

4) Levert Marketing

5) Anduro Technologies Inc.

6) Applecore Interactive

7) MetaSEO

SEM Expertise Inc.

9) U2R1 Media Inc.

10) Search Tactix Inc.

The process used by canada.topseos.com for evaluating social media marketing companies involves reviewing the work completed by various online marketing companies considered for the evaluation process and viewing how well they manage various social media channels. The end result is a list of the top online marketing companies offering social media management services. For each company reviewed, at least three customer references were contacted and actual performance and effectiveness of each SMO agency was determined. Different general and specific questions were asked of the social media marketing companies: