Yes, there are a few other aspects to SEO other than link building but in comparison they are pretty unimportant. And yes there are many other ways to build links besides article marketing but I have found none of them to be nearly as effective.

I rely on article marketing for my SEO results and I have had very good results doing so.

I submit articles a variety of different ways (I think using a variety of ways to build backlinks is important) including the use of article distribution services. One such service is Content Crooner and that service is the topic of this article.

With Content Crooner you submit one article and it goes out to hundreds (even thousands) of different article directories, blogs, and other websites. This means that you can build up a huge amount of links back to your website with just one article. This greatly leverages your work for better, faster results.

Not only will you build up more links but you will also have your articles (with links back to your site) on all of these other websites which means that you can gain some direct traffic as well. In most cases the direct traffic is not significant but sometimes it can be.

Of course such a service is not free but neither is your time. And when you consider the amount of time it would take to do what Content Crooner does by hand it's an easy decision to spend some cash on the service.

Think about how long it would take you to submit your article to over 1000 sites manually, one by one. You could spend weeks doing what you can do with the click of one button using this service. An intelligent online business person knows that investing money is the smart thing to do when it leverages their work for greater results and saves them time.