One of the constant goals in the life of a blogger that is trying to make money online, is gathering backlinks for his articles. Improving your authority should be natural in the best case scenario, but you can still give your blog a nudge in the right direction, by using social bookmarking sites.

All you have to do is create a user account on one or more of these social bookmarking sites, submit the url of the article you want to promote, add a description, a title and some tags that are related, and submit. That’s it. The search engines will index the links and your backlinks count will grow.

Many of these sites will also bring you visitors, so it’s a double advantage. More people from the search engines as your authority increases, extra visitors from social bookmarking sites, all this will help with your RSS subscription numbers and your monetization efforts.

Reaching the frontpage of Digg.com can bring 50,000 visitors in 24 hours and get you backlinks from other blogs. I’ve seen articles that got 80,000 visitors from StumbleUpon, if they were of high quality and were submitted to a popular category.

This method can also be used to index a new site or blog very fast. Writing a few quality articles and submitting them to different social media sites can get your site indexed in 24-48 hours.