To profit from social bookmarking, you need a plan that generates a steady stream of traffic, and you need to consistently work your plan, day after day after day.

Let's say you have an affiliate link you want to draw targeted prospects to. A good strategy is to write your own detailed, relevant review of the niche product. You must give your visitors great content, or they won't click through. Tell what you really like about the product, and also any drawbacks you see. If you can create an audio or video or add images to this page, that brands you with more credibility and builds relationships. Be transparent to build trust. To get the clicks you want, the product pluses must far outweigh the minuses. Ask for reader feedback, too. And be sure to include a widget on the page so visitors can easily bookmark your article to popular crowdsourcing sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, and others.

Also, be sure your article has at least 2 or 3 links to the affiliate page you want prospects to click to. Then promote your review page to your own mailing list of entrepreneurs, to friends, on forums, to your followers list on social bookmarking sites, on article directories ... anywhere you can reach the right target market for this product.

And ask them to bookmark it if they think it has value. This is key. Many will read and like it and not think to bookmark it unless you ask them to. So be sure to ask, and you will be on your way to social bookmarking profits.