Today marks one year since I relaunched the Smoke & Sear website β and honestly, I thought it wouldnβt survive.
With everyone jumping to AI for recipes and reviews, I genuinely expected my little BBQ site to fade away.
But you proved me wrong.
Massively wrong.
Here are 10 epic facts from the first 12 months:
π₯ Nearly 180,000 new people visited the site β enough to fill Wembley twice.
π₯ People from 100+ countries used the site this year.
π₯ The USA alone sent 51,000+ visitors.
π₯ Perfect Pulled Pork was read 32,947 times.
π₯ Ninja content smashed 100,000+ views across Woodfire & FlexFlame reviews.
π₯ Pages were loaded hundreds of thousands of times overall.
π₯ The UK BBQ Events 2025 page hit 7,200+ readers.
π₯ Brisket content pulled 13,000+ viewsβ¦ and Iβve only cooked TWO briskets in my entire life. π
π₯ Even the 404 page somehow got 8,406 views.
π₯ And my honest, unsponsored reviews were read over 92,000 times β real testing that people actually trust.
I canβt thank you enough for reading, cooking, sharing, messaging, and keeping this whole thing alive.
In a year where everyone said websites were dead . . . you showed me that real cooks, real stories, and real honesty still matter.
Hereβs to year two β bigger, hotter, smokier, and even more ridiculous. π₯β€οΈ
www.smokeandsear.world
β Lee