For some reason 20 Minutes, a German news site with a Chinese domain, decided to blurb Rate My Dance Moves. I didn’t get much extra traffic from them yesterday. However, it coincided with a ten-fold increase in Adsense revenue. I think it also supports an SEO theory I was having before I went to bed last night. Rate My Dance Moves has a far better clickthru rate than any of my other sites. It’s also the only site where I’m running ads in the space where you would normally find a left navigation bar. So last night I wondered if a large number of users were clicking on the ads simply because they are trained to look for links in the left sidebar. Today I have hard numbers.

One in six German speakers can’t tell the difference between a left navigation bar and an adblock. Has anyone heard of a better adsense strategy? You can be sure I’ll be submitting to the German version of Digg, it’s YiGG.de.

A slew of funny comments showed up today on Rate My Dance Moves. I also got some positive feedback on the design of the site, “like hot-or-not, only uglier”

Cool. RateMyDanceMoves is the featured mashup at ProgrammableWeb. YouTube mashups are apparently taking off both in numbers of new sites and popularity with visitors. RateMyDanceMoves is the twenty-second in the youtube category but only the first in the dance space.

On the advice of MC Hammer, I’ve added some more specific dance styles: krump, buck, snap, goin’ dumb

I’m not entirely sure why I built this, but I did, so here you go. RateMyDanceMoves.com is a hot-or-not style dance rating site built off of YouTube videos.

I really like dance, especially hip hop, and especially if I am standing near the wall and somebody else is doing the dancing. I aspire to be a Poppin’ Pete but I have a closer relation to this guy.

The dance videos ended up being really good. There’s a little too much teenage craziness (or worse six-year-old boys dancing to “I’m In Love Wit A Stripper”) but there’s also plenty of great dancing from Dance2XS, crazy Japanese game show contestants, and even cowboys in sequins.

I check the YouTube for more every day so there should always be recent entries.