How do I get a sudden boost of views?

This one is easy. There is one almost foolproof way to get a boost of traffic to your video. The answer is: Video Responses.

By now you have noticed that you can post a comment to somebodies youtube video. You may also have started to get comments on your own video.  Comments have their own benefit when it comes to generating traffic (a post for another day).  There is a special kind of comment that will guarantee that your new video is seen by others.

Try this experiment:
1. Log into your youtube account
2. Find the video: Top 10 Funny Baby Videos!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWHpcKXt-qQ
3. Scroll down the page until you see the little white box where you could enter text to leave a comment.
4. Click inside the white box
5. Notice that a little blue link appears underneath the box. "create a video response".  Click on this.
6. You will be taken to a page with a list of your youtube videos. Click on one.
7. Click "use the selected video"
8. You will be taken to a page that tells you that your response was successful.
9. Click "return to the original video"
10. Look right under the videos description. Wallah! Your video is now visible to the world on a high traffic page!

There are some guiding principles about video responses. Keeping these in mind will help you maximize this valuable tool.
-Most videos do not allow automatic video responses like this. Usually responses have to be pre-approved by the owner of the youtube video before they will work. I have only ever had 1 person actually manually approve my request to put up a response. Your best bet is to troll through youtube looking for videos that have video responses below them.  If the average view count is really low on the two videos you see, it is a good bet that video automatically accepts video responses.
-As soon as two other people upload responses to that video, yours will be knocked off the page.  This happens very quickly on popular videos. Your baby video response will disappear fast.
-Try to find videos that are actually related to yours. This means you will be targeting the right audience.
-Your video can only be posted as a response to ONE VIDEO AT A TIME. If you post your video to another page, it will be removed from the one it was previously on.