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If you reside in America, let me give you some resources Here are some recommended Google websites to do searches at:
Google UKUSA for American residents: http://www.google.co.uk/ (click the option pages from the UK)com About 300,000,000 people
Google CanadaUK: http://www.google.caco.uk/ About 60,587,300 people (click the option too see only pages from Canadathe UK)
Google IrelandCanada: http://www.google.ieca/about 31,613,000 people (click the option to see only pages from Canada)
Google Australia: http://www.google.com.au/About 21,000,000 people (click option to see only for pages from Australia)
Google New ZealandIreland: http://www.google.co.nzie/about 4,156,119 people (click option to see only pages from Ireland)
Google New Zealand: http://www.google.co.nz/ About 4,200,000 people(click option to see only pages from Ireland)
For various reasons people from Finland often can speak English. About 60% of people in Finland state they know English. Therefore, your material in English can reach people from Finland. There are some English language websites which get a significant portion of their web traffic from Finland (say 6%). However, Finland is generally better to keep in mind on how well you rank at their Google than doing research. With the above being said about Finland, here are some other relevant Google service websites that have English content and audiences: Google South Africa: http://www.google.co.za/ Not sure how many English speakers Google India: http://www.google.co.in/ Not sure how many English speakers http://www.google.fi/ Google Finland About 5,000,00 people Google Finland: http://www.google.fi/ About Generally speaking I try to target my articles for Google America and because Google America has so many English speakers it tends to have an effect on the other Google website countries I strongly suspect. I have found for example that a highly ranked article say in New Zealand with an New Zealand URL which was a very good article did not rank well in the USA Google. Generally speaking, while I may once in a while see some UK url based articles, generally speaking UK URL based articles tend to not rank as well in the USA. In other words, USA URL based articles tend to have a greater influence in the world. I have found that USA and UK URLs tend to have the most effect on other English speaking Googles. I did have a theory though. My theory is that when your article ranks well at Google USA but say it does not rank well at Google UK the best course of action is to do two things. Get it to rank higher at Google USA and also get more UK URL websites to link to your article. Of course, the same would apply for other English countries but given that the UK has the second largest audience of English speakers I am more concerned about the UK than other countries. I also theorize that if you can get your Google UK ranking to be higher that this will help you rank higher at Google USA and also Google Canada, Google Australia, Google Ireland, Google New Zealand, etc. The '''most important ''' factor in getting your article to be top ranked by the search engines is by having high quality relevant content. By searching other English speaking countries articles you increase your chances of gaining a top search engine ranked article through superior research in terms of your articles content.
2. Again, the primary goal should be creating quality content. People are often much more likely to link to quality content than low quality content and inbound links are very important to gaining top Google rankings. Also, Google clocks how much time readers spend in an article and this partly determines your google ranking. Quality content encourages people to keep reading. Do NOT make any claims you do not reasonably support in the article. Readers will often blow off such an article and not read the rest of the article when they read such a claim or claims. This will reduce the amount of time they spend in your article and your Google rank will needlessly suffer. Plus people will often not be as likely to link to such articles which will greatly hurt your search engine rankings. Also, nothing will infuriate the opponents of an article more than an article than does not make unreasonable claims. This will create internet buzz/publicity for your article. Also cite your sources and do so via footnotes rather than bibliographies which are much less user friendly. Please keep in mind that Google ranks the links that you link to in an article. Obviously it is better to cite an authoratative website than Joe's blog.