Quoakle Blog
During Autumn 2012, the Quoakle team began launching its new portfolio of Restaurant Directories.The latest to hit Google's top page is Hereford Restaurants.Building on the expertise gained through the development of Quoakle's easy-to-use local business directory, the team launched a series of restaurant directories in Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties. We used exact match domain names in order to be found easily on search engines such as Google. The following are the Quoakle Restaurant Directories now live on the web:Gloucester RestaurantsCheltenham RestaurantsRestaurant OxfordWorcester RestaurantsCoffee Shops in GloucestershireTea Rooms in GloucestershireSo what's special about a Quoakle Restaurant Directory?... It's quick and easy to use!Drawing on ideas refined on Quoakle's local business directory, we wanted to create a restaurant directory with a clean, clear look, and a simple page layout. On a Quoakle Restaurant Directory, we want to promote each restaurant's brand through the prominent display of its logo as well as enable users to see at a glance exactly what they want ... and very quickly!Our mission is to connect local people quickly and easily with local restaurants as well as helping those visiting an area to find out where to eat, as simply as possible.... It's easy to find on...
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I don't know quite when it happened, but some time during 25th July 2013, Quoakle's graphical directory reached a fantastic milestone ... a quarter of a million visits!As you can see from the stats on the left (taken from Google Analytics on Saturday 10th August 2013), there have now been 253,624 visits since our records began in July 2007. Those visits were made by over 200,000 unique visitors who looked at a total of over half a million different pages on the directory!You can see from the stats that an average user looks at 2.11 pages and stays on Quoakle's graphical directory for over 2 and a half minutes. The bounce rate tells you that just over 60% of visitors just looked at one page then left the website.Over 86% of visits to the directory were made by visitors who hadn't been on Quoakle before.So lots of reasons to be encouraged by the progress that's been made. The Quoakle team looks ahead to the next quarter of a million visits with excitement and anticipation.If you haven't been on Quoakle - the graphical directory yet, try it today, tell your friends and join the Quoakle-ution!
When we talk about social media most people think of Facebook and Twitter but there are many more social media platforms out there. Perhaps the best known are Pinterest, LinkedIn and Google +.There are obviously much better things in life to be spending a lot of time on than social networks, but if you are going to follow anyone, we'd be really chuffed if Quoakle was on your list!Quoakle has now made it easy to find our social media accounts by displaying the colourful "social" icons on every single page of the website ... Quoakle.com .Apparently, Google, when producing its listings, looks at "social signals". So as we would love for more people to find Quoakle's innovative graphical directory through Google, we need some social signals!If you can follow any of our Quoakle's accounts we'd be really grateful. Just click the social icon of your choice from the bottom of any page on the Graphical Directory. For those of our "fans" who really want to help, why not ...Send a Facebook status update with a link to a page on the Quoakle websiteSend a Tweet with a link to a page on the Quoakle websitePin a page on the Quoakle...
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At the beginning of August 2006, no-one had heard of Quoakle... that's because the word didn't exist! If you put the word "quoakle" into Google's search box absolutely nothing came up. Nearly seven years later there are over 10,000 links to different pages on the web that make reference to the innovative online graphical directory. As you would expect, the No.1 entry for "quoakle" on Google's top page takes you to the UK web directory itself, to the home page of quoakle.com.
Bank holiday weekends are always going to bring lots of visitors to Quoakle's graphical directory as internet users look for Days Out activities on Quoakle's popular Leisure Directory. However, internet traffic coming to Quoakle last Monday was even higher than expected. Visits to Quoakle on Monday May 27th 2013 smashed the previous record of 508 visits in one day. Director, Helen Steele, commented, "It's great to see that more and more people are discovering just how useful Quoakle is!"
What a surprise it was to type in "Gloucestershire Business directory" into Google and find Quoakle high up in the Google Places Listings. You never know what they are going to slip in next! We had tried all sorts of ideas to get listed on that page as Quoakle is particularly keen to promote businesses in the "home territory" of Gloucestershire (even though it is now a UK Website Directory).So at the start of the 2013, it's "Thank you Mr Google!"
Just as people are beginning to talk about "coming out of the recession", there is more good news for UK Businesses. Today, Tuesday November 6th, Gloucester-based Internet Company, Quoakle.com, launches its "BIG idea" and begins giving out advertising gifts to scores of local companies! At the start of its 7th year, the Quoakle team wanted to do something a bit special. Website promotion specialist and boss, Nigel Steele, describes Quoakle's "BIG idea"."We've enjoyed real success with the directory, getting top positions on Google and we now want to take things to the next level. What better way than by giving something away!" From this week, Quoakle starts offering FREE advertising for all company websites that fall into Quoakle's 14 diverse topics - from Restaurants to Gardening Businesses and from Wedding Services to Days Out activities.Since its launch in 2006, Quoakle's online directory has enjoyed tremendous growth through its focus on clear, simple page design, removing the clutter of too much text as well as the distraction of off-putting banner adverts. Designed by an unusual Head Teacher-Former Pupil team, Quoakle has become known for its simplicity and ease of use. As one of its users commented, "...it's a breath of fresh air!"UK companies...
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During the last six months, from March 1st to August 31st 2012, the visits to Quoakle from Google's Organic listings have risen by an exciting 91.87% when compared with the previous six months! Going up from 15,603 to 29,745. This exciting development is largely due to Quoakle's strong performance from its Days Out and Leisure pages in the Google listings .To take a look at Quoakle's UK Days Out home page click on the link.Quoakle now has 64 County pages of links to UK Days Out websites! ... Activities for Children, Family Days Out, Adventure and Leisure Activities and Places to Visit. Visitors to Quoakle are now landing on Days Out pages for counties all around England and Wales. The most popular pages are:Days Out in Gloucestershire, Days Out in Worcestershire and Days Out in Bristol. However, we are seeing an increasing number of visitors arriving at Quoakle on the pages for Days Out in Somerset and Days Out in Cornwall where Quoakle is placed No. 3 and No. 2 respectively on the Google listings. The Quoakle team is confident we are going to see a continuing increase in visits to Quoakle's Days Out pages in the coming months and Quoakle becoming...
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This week, Quoakle teamed up with Really Simple SEO to provide a great, all-round, website promotion service for all its paying clients.ReallySimpleSEO.com is the popular website of well-established SEO Consultancy, Search Marketing Services, based in South West England. Specialising in affordable SEO training, Really Simple SEO provides online training resources to help small businesses learn how to optimise and promote their own website. Resources include downloadable Tutorials, eBooks and Lessons written in a simple to understand way that anyone can follow.Really Simple SEO is run by website promotion specialist David Howlett and provides lots of freely available resources as well as a very extensive service that is accessible just to signed-up members. When you become a member you get instant access to over 100 tutorials of SEO training resources.Really Simple SEO is now offering six months free membership to paying members of Quoakle's graphical directory.Director of Quoakle.com, Nigel Steele provided a recommendation over a year ago on the Really Simple SEO website. "What I like about your posts David, are that they are simple! They just take steady consistent work by readers such as myself on my own website. We have been applying a lot of your advice and our pages are steadily improving Google rank”.Many other members...
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The Quoakle team is committed to keeping its reputation as possibly the easiest directory to use on the web. Not only are we continuing to enhance the simple navigation, but we are also looking for fresh ways to communicate with our users. We want to make sure they have found the best way to use Quoakle's innovative graphical directory for their particular personal requirements.So, here is the first in the "How To " series launched this weekend.
