You can be pretty LARGE with text and use a link color and a common font that stands out, leave the space around it not so crowded, and pull the surfers eye towards it.
Text gives you long term SE possibilitys and can be flashy as well. Graphics a lot of the time just blend in with the theme of the site and get skipped over by the surfer looking for the free shit.
And Preacher is dead on, they ain't all going to be winners. It's a tougher game than it used to be. Have a hub worth bookmarking. I usually have a link to my LL on both galleries, coz I figure I've likely lost the sale by then anyways, and my LL is worth bookmarking
