This is my first week on Steemit and i've been finding out a lot on how this platform works, let's start off with the up-vote. Your up-vote has value determined by your steem power and the more you use your up votes the value of it goes down. I'm not saying not to vote, im just saying don't vote so much. The recommended votes per day is 20, you can find out how many times you voted on SteemitStats. Check link below.
http://steem.link/SteemStats
There you will be able to see more information about your blog like recent activity.
Check your incoming and outgoing votes, posts comments and reply's.
All this is great for seeing who votes for you and how much is being rewarded. You can also see your latest transactions between users. Try out SteemStats and monitor your activity on your blog. And don't forget to vote wisely.
Link for SteemStats. http://steem.link/SteemStats