Stogie Rate has been humming right along so we thought that we would take a pause and provide a quick news update to hit the recent highlights and let everyone know what is in the pipeline. (Oh yes -- and we might have word of a great cigar giveaway coming your way soon! Check below for more details...)
A quick look at where the site is today and where it came from.
First of all, StogieRate.com is now over a year old and the site continues to grow on all fronts! It's very cool to think that a little over a year ago, the site was launched, and it was really in just a prototype stage. From that starting point, the site has gone through many updates and enhancements, and it now tracks the cigar inventory for hundreds of users and nearly 22,000 cigars. It's hard to imagine what all those cigars would look like stacked together, but it would be a beautiful sight. They would, no doubt, fill a small warehouse! We are looking forward to continuing to build on our current set of inventory tools with an eye on our overall goal of making cigar inventory fun and easy.
Secondly, we continue to curate and keep the Stogie Rate cigar database up to date. While site members continue to add cigars, the Doc from Stogie Fresh also does an amazing job of adding new cigar records along with new cigar and cigar band photos, which we hope make identifying cigars much easier to do. Also, thanks to the Doc we were able to launch the site a year ago with over 5,500 different cigar lines in it, and today this number has grown to nearly 7,600!
Thirdly, StogieRate.com now serves as the exclusive repository for high quality Stogie Fresh cigar reviews, which you can view every week in the Latest Reviews section of the StogieRate.com home page. You can also conveniently search and browse all of the Stogie Fresh reviews via the Review Database page on our sister site, StogieFresh.info, powered directly by the Stogie Rate review database.
And finally, the traffic to the site keeps climbing to the point where we are looking at ways to increase the speed and efficiency of the web site. We're certainly not complaining about this problem, and we want to provide our service to as many people as possible, so we will be looking at innovative ways to keep the site running as fast as possible.
Cigar giveaway
On a closing note, and as was mentioned at the beginning of this news post, yes, we will be doing a new cigar giveaway in the very near future, so keep your eye on the site for details. We will also send out an email notification to all of our members before we start the giveaway.
That's all for now. We will be back soon with another update detailing some of our most recent enhancements to the site, so until next time, happy cigar smoking!
News blog for the web site www.stogierate.com
