User blog comment:SharkMoon6621/Smithing!!!/@comment-24.253.8.98-20130315191234

If you smith gold items, you can find a lot of gold veins Kolskeggr Mine.

You used to be able to smith cheap weapons and increase smithing quickly by creating iron daggers, but now, the material has to provide some real value for smithing to increase faster.

You could gather up dwarven ingots and dwarven scrap (See Dwarven Smithing and create Dwarven Bows. You will still need to gather up iron ingots for this, but your smithing should level quicker this way.