Quoakle Blog
The summer holidays are here! And so, for the time being, is the sunshine. We can only hope that the wonderfully unpredictable English weather will hold out for a few weeks longer. So whilst you've got the chance, why not take advantage of the favourable atmospheric conditions and get the kids out of the house! Quoakle.com offers links to a wide and varied selection of activities for children, for you and your brood to choose from. From animal parks and zoos, to country houses and gardens. From pottery making and other crafts, to whitewater river rafting! Regardless of your thirst (or lack of) for wild adventure, Quoakle.com can help you to find the perfect activity for you and your family.And even if the sunshine isn't here to stay, you can also find a variety of indoor activities on the site, helping to keep those rainy days interesting.To find your family's next day out, visit UK Days Out.
Quoakle's innovative graphical directory reports great improvement in Google Page rank during the last 6 months. The page rank rose at least one unit on 37 "logo pages" and the highest ranked page is now Days Out and Leisure in Gloucestershire at Google rank 4.The chart below shows a comparison between Google rank for Quoakle pages as on December 23rd 2010 and then as on 23rd June 2011.
Today Quoakle launched the first video in its Glorious Gloucestershire series! The subject matter chosen centred around the beautiful bluebells in the Forest of Dean and was filmed a few weeks ago. The Glorious Gloucestershire series is Quoakle's first venture into the "world of moving pictures" and aims to promote the county of Gloucestershire, steeped in history and full of natural beauty, with its many fabulous tourist attractions. Popular with visitors from the length and breadth of Britain, as well as visitors from abroad, Gloucestershire has so much for the locals to visit too. Quoakle aims to make some the great attractions across the county more well known. Thanks to Ben and Joe for their hard work filming and editing "Forest of Dean Bluebells". Forest of Dean Bluebells - Glorious Gloucestershire
The Quoakle team continues to offer a growing range of services to businesses across the Gloucestershire region - supporting local companies in the design, development and promotion of their own website.Having recently completed a website for the well-established garden services company, Greenfields (which is proving to be very successful), the next exciting project was the re-designing of its website for the popular Coffee House and Christian Bookshop at Newent, the Good News Centre.The project started with one of those "divine appointments" when Quoakle's head of Client development, Sean Cresswell, having just returned from a mission trip to India, got chatting to Centre manager Donna Clark. He happened to mention he worked for a Christian company that created websites and a very positive business relationship was begun.Nigel Steele, the project co-ordinator for Quoakle, couldn't wait to produce something really special for the Good News Centre having enjoyed many visits to the bookshop and coffee shop over the last twenty years.After initial research into the websites of other Christian bookshops and Coffee Shops across the UK, Nigel talked with Donna and agreed the style and feel that she wanted the site to have - a vibrant, welcoming and contemporary look. Graphic Designer,...
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During the last year the Quoakle team have broadened the range of services offered to businesses across the Gloucestershire region and now offer support to local companies in the design, development and promotion of their own website.One of the first projects was with the well-established garden services company, Greenfields. When Churcham-based Greenfields Garden Services needed a new website for their expanding business, they looked no further than the other side of the A40 to Quoakle's team of website specialists.Greenfields Garden Services was started in 1988 by Chris Snell, comprising of one push along mower, a few hand tools and a small van and now employs over 40 people with a large client base across the South West, Midlands and Wales.Greenfields original connection with Quoakle was when they became the very first business to advertise on the innovative online business directory in September 2006. Greenfields helped with the official launch of Quoakle helping to plant hundreds of daffodils along the A40 in Churcham. During the last year, Quoakle's website promotion specialist, Nigel Steele, has been providing advice and help at Greenfields' Kitesnest Lane base for a range of internet marketing activities.Greenfields managing director, Chris Snell, said "The internet is the way...
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During the summer holidays, the number of people visiting Quoakle has gone up by an excellent 30%!! We're really excited about this, and just wanted to say a big 'Thank You' and 'Keep going'!We are regularly receiving over 200 visits a day. As you can see from the image, the ongoing trend is definitely rising, which is extremely encouraging. Although Quoakle is seeing over 200 visits a day, this has actually amounted to over 21 000 visits to business websites this month; almost 1000 per day! We're really happy that Quoakle is continuing to promote local business quickly, easily and frequently!Days Out and Restaurant pages in Gloucestershire are the top two page listings, however there are a growing number of visitors across all the counties!If you'd like to advertise with Quoakle, please visit the contact us page on the website: https://quoakle.com/contact-us/.Thanks for your continued support! Enjoy using Quoakle!
Some of the Quoakle team gathered in a beautiful area of the county, in early August, for a team strategy prayer day!The day was great fun, revealing some good insight on ways forward, as we journeyed back to see where Quoakle has come during the last four years. We were all very encouraged to see what's been achieved, and very excited about what's to come in the future.Here are a couple of pictures!
Throughout the four years that Quoakle has been growing, we've made navigation a high priority - helping our users go from page to page quickly and easily, so they and you can find what you're looking for.At the bottom of each page, you may have noticed links to other topics in that county, but before now, we've not been able to travel from say, our 'Days out' page in one county over to another 'Days Out' in a different county. Well - now you can!Mark and Jeremy have worked really hard to create a drop down box, that will develop over the next few weeks, allowing all our visitors to travel from county to county and stay with a particular topic.Try it out now! Go to www.quoakle.com and choose your topic. I've been working a lot in the garden recently, so I'd choose Gloucestershire, then Gardening to look for local Garden Centres. I'm willing to travel a bit, and live closely to Herefordshire, and now I can 'Choose another County' at the top of the page, and instantly look at the Garden Centres available in Herefordshire!We're really excited about this new development and love using it. We're sure you will...
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This week, a small number of the Quoakle team ventured out into local business districts in Gloucester, to spread some good news about Quoakle - the quick link to local websites. Above is a picture of them about to go into Gloucester Quays.Nigel, Sean, Maria and John took to the streets visiting shops and businesses, engaging with the public and with shop workers. They handed out our most recent leaflet 'Great things to do for the summer holidays', encouraging friends and families to check out the Days Out pages of Quoakle to see what they can do during the summer break.You can browse the Days Out and Leisure pages here and view a host of Museums, art galleries, sports, family attractions, watersports and lots more!
The Quoakle "Wedge" co-made by Roger Hewlett and becoming a familiar sight around the roads of Gloucester was seen at its first Motor Show on Saturday, 12th June, Gloucestershire Motor Show.The Gloucestershire Motor Show was opened by Gloucester rugby star, Phil Vickery, who swapped rugby boots for driving gloves to open the Highnam-based, car show last weekend. More than 100 classic cars took centre stage.The Motor Show was organised in aid of two charities, the Pied Piper Appeal and Cruise Bereavement Care.
