The Direct Index
Report · Tampa cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-12

Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar

sterlingcigarbar.com is partly visible to agents.

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BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-12. Through spoton acting for the business. Report a mistake

1531 East 7th Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605 · +1-813-466-5723

Nearby, also direct

Places near Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar's website. It can read what Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SpotOn.

66.2%

43 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

Where it stands

How Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar compares

Where it stands

126 of 320 in Tampa cafes and bars

Top 39% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Gaspar's Grotto C, Riveters Tampa C. Just below: The 1918 C, WeVegan Cafe C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours33%no
Have an llms.txt48%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using SpotOn 2,375 sites78%69%66.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
King Corona Cigars19 mCyes
Sterling Cigars Online26 mFno
HotWax Coffee Shop & Tap House37 mDno
Society Wine Bar46 mCno
Zodiac50 mByes
Ybor City Tap House59 mCyes
Bradley's on 7th66 mFno
AfterLife80 mFno
Copper Shaker89 mBno
Showbar Ybor97 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Sterling Cigar Lounge & Bar in Tampa cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Tampa cafes and bars32053%32%66.2%
Sites using SpotOn in Tampa cafes and bars774%43%66.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 15th of 320 in Tampa cafes and bars, up from 126th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Tampa cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking through spoton on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /ybor-city-sterling-cigar-lounge-and-bar-about: nothing new; menu page /ybor-city-sterling-cigar-lounge-and-bar-cigar-menu: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes. Show the details