You can use the trending section to identify popular videos you can piggyback on to increase your views. We call this "drafting".
Like a sports car in a race you can leverage the slipstream behind popular videos to jump ahead. It's simple, once you find a video very similar to your own you can reuse its keywords so that YouTube will evaluate and potentially associate your video with the popular one.
Associate your video with the popular one

Written by Rob Sandie
Updated over a week ago