Last August, the Quoakle team began taking major steps towards the aim “to spread right across every county in the United Kingdom”. The first phase saw the launch of 14 new counties, from Cornwall in the south-west to Cheshire in the north-west. The first topic within these counties was Days Out and Leisure which is beginning to feature highly on Google across England and Wales. Quoakle users are now able to flick from county to county looking for great places to visit, days out and family activities, and finding hundreds of websites with just a couple of clicks.
In the last few months, Sean Cresswell, responsible for Client Development, has been expanding the whole directory across England and Wales so that there are now pages for all 14 topics across all 64 counties. The only region not covered currently is Greater London which awaits careful strategic planning.
For Quoakle, the original graphical directory, navigation is very important indeed. Fulfilling the strapline – ” a quick link to local websites” – means helping Quoakle users go from page to page quickly and easily, so they and you can find what you’re looking for without getting lost or wasting time in the wrong part of the website. Development has been under way for some time to improve user experience on the home page as well as on the classic Quoakle “Logo Pages”. The first phase to be launched was the new home page which users were able to navigate through for the first time over the weekend of 8th-9th April 2012.
Visitors to the Quoakle home page looking for a UK Web Directory of local businesses, will find on the page some simple instructions:
Select your region, then county, and view local businesses by topic
and will then find clickable regions on the UK map.
Users looking for businesses in Gloucestershire will need to:
Select the region South West by clicking on that part of the UK map. A box will then appear to the left of the screen listing the various counties in the South West region in alphabetical order.
Gloucestershire is listed 5th on the list. By clicking the link on the word Gloucestershire, users are taken directly to the home page for the Gloucestershire Directory.
The same simple process works for all 64 counties across the 9 active regions of the UK.
The Quoakle team remain committed to keeping Quoakle’s graphical directory true to the meta description seen on the Google’s listings … ” an amazingly simple search solution”
Enjoy the latest bit of simplicity at www.quoakle.com !