Edit: It has recently come to my attention that YouTube may no longer be counting autoplay views at all, rendering this entire technique useless. It has been quite some time since I’ve used it myself, so I can’t say for sure. Feel free to test it anyway. In any event, I will leave this post here for historic purposes (and because frankly, I don’t have much content on this blog!)

Recently someone on Wickedfire asked how they could get more views to a YouTube video. I figured I might as well put my response on this here bloggity blog as well.

This will help you get a significant amount of NON-HUMAN views if you do it correctly. Why would you want those? Well, basically the idea is to get so many views that your video starts appearing in the “most viewed” areas and what not, resulting in a ton of real views. A large amount of total plays also adds legitimacy to your video.

The Method

Upload your video to YouTube. Now go create a MySpace account. Proceed to hunt down popular MySpace Music profiles that have a ton of views/fans and that also ALLOW HTML in comments. These aren’t exactly easy to find but they are out there. I’m not going to give you a master list of them, but with a little research you should be able to find some. Just scroll down and check out the comments on any particular profile, and if you see a ton of retarded glittery images embedded then you’ll know you’ve found a winner.

Add all of these bands. Many of the more popular ones have their accounts set up to auto approve incoming friend requests (because it would take forever to do it manually).

Once you’ve got a friends list full of bands, you may now proceed to comment spam. In your comment, you will be embedding your video. However, the regular old embed code simply will not do. You need the AUTOPLAY embed code. Your typical YouTube embed code will look like this (forgive the screenshots, my code plugin thingy is being a jerk right now):

In order to make the video autoplay, you’ll want to add “autoplay=1″ to the end of both the URL’s in the code. The resulting code will now look like this:

And then you simply embed the crap out of it in MySpace comments. If you feel like being extra abusive, feel free to embed the video 2-3 times in a comment. Or even post multiple comments. Every time someone loads that MySpace page, you get a view (or more).

Okay, fine, to get you started I’ll give you one profile: McFly. Only because I don’t like them. If they stop allowing HTML in their comments in the near future, perhaps you’ll know why.

Have fun.