All parameters must be taken into consideration. If you are writing an article and you think it will bring value to the network or benefit many people, consider including links in this article that redirect to other publications of yours.

You can also embed links to your own website to convert a player into a subscriber or customer. There are many things you can do to optimize the reach of an item beyond the rewards received on Steemit.

The purpose of the article I left in my previous comment (in French) ,is to make understand that the referencing of steemit.com is very powerful. And that we must act knowingly, because even a $2,000 article that would make millions of views would not be paid enough.

To be well referenced on Google some are ready to pay crazy sums. Here, with steemit we have the chance to send our articles in the top results Google without paying 1 cent.

It is really up to us to take into consideration all that this ecosystem has to offer and make the most of it. Voting is only one aspect of this whole ecosystem, Steem goes far beyond that :-)