When you figure out a method by which you can track what each platform and each article brings precisely by adding something unique in your links for each article and each platform and finding ways to to count up all of those items of info THEN you will have a very explicit way to focus your efforts on where they truly count the most.
It will also allow you to quantitatively assess one type of content over others. It's what marketing from more of a scientific, objective perspective is all about, reducing the subjective to maximize the objective info upon which you can make rational decisions.
yes if steemit had analytics like Medium does, i could figure this out easily.
You're a smart person, put your McGyver hat on and come up with your own methods to get that info, it's not impossible by any stretch.