I discovered ViraLink a yesterday on Andy Coates's blog. Like it's name, it replicates fast and soon there will be a huge amount of links. Please read the ViraLink post before you read on.

Amazing idea.

Pros and cons for ViraLink
Pros:
It's proven by huge amount of people that ViraLink works, at least on technorati.
You can get some friends.

Cons:
Google can treat ViraLink like a link farm.
Google don't like people manipulate their Page Rank.
Google might found some of the links have nothing to do with other
There is no text inside <a> tag, it does not help with keywords1
So Google might sent ViraLink users to Google Hell.
and google might...
it's all about Google...

Ok, these cons are all possibilities. Google have already pwned almost all other people's ideas. Do you think ViraLink would last?

I made some modifications to ViraLink and name it as BacteriaLink.

Just like ViraLink, but this have some special qualities ViraLink don't have. Compare to ViraLink, BacteriaLink is:
Larger and better looking
A matrix of 16*16 or 32*32 icons, which is visually appealing to the user. This also means it cost some amount of space. from my calculation, 25 space is more than enough. Google won't think 25 links as a link farm.

Colonized
BacteriaLinks should have related links to the site. Bacterias usually are in colonies, introduce another colony could cause conflict. What would Google think if a page or the entire site is 100% about PHP and a link about dancing Pokémon is inside a bunch of very close positioned links?

Informative
Compare to ViraLink(or even ViralTag), there is only 1 element to work on, the anchor and it's text. but with BacteriaLinks, there are 2 elements, <img> and <a>. Each element have some attributes search engine would pick up. alt and title.

NEAT!
If anyone want to join, here is the code for you, this site can't take pingbacks so please put a comment here, I will add you as soon as possible.
It's ok to mess around with the code, as long as the idea is similar.

Copy Everything below this and add your own link to it and put on your website.
Your link must be related to [SUBJECT NAME].
Create a 16*16 png version of your favicon and host on YOUR site.
Then contact me though comment, pingback or email with your site's address, and I will add your site to my BacteriaLinks.
 
<style>
.bacteriabox{
width:90px;
height:90px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
 
.bacteriabox div{
width:16px;
height:16px;
margin:0px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#F7F7FF;
float: left;
}
 
.bacteriabox img{
border:none;
}
</style>
<div class="bacteriabox" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;">
 
<div>
	<a href="http://mgccl.com" title="WebDevLogs" class="linkthumb">
		<img src="/webdevlogsfavpng.png" alt="WebDevLogs" title="WebDevlogs"/>
	</a>
</div>
<div>
	<a href="http://www.andy-coates.com" title="Andy Coates" class="linkthumb">
<img src="/misc/nofavicon.png" alt="Andy Coates" title="Andy Coates"/>
	</a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.antoniobologna.net" title="Antonio Bologna" class="linkthumb">
<img src="http://www.antoniobologna.net/abfavicon.jpg" alt="Antonio Bologna" title="Antonio Bologna"/></a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="/ploglist" title="Chao Xu's Personal Blog" class="linkthumb">
<img src="/misc/personal.png" alt="Chao Xu's Personal Blog" title="Chao Xu's Personal Blog"/></a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="/coolest-asian-in-the-world" title="Coolest Asian in the world" class="linkthumb">
<img src="/misc/asian.png" alt="Coolest Asian in the world" title="Coolest Asian in the world"/></a>
</div>
 
<div>
<a href="http://designcommunity.co.uk/" title="Design Community" class="linkthumb">
<img src="http://forums.designcommunity.co.uk/fav16.png" alt="Design Community" title="Design Community"/></a>
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1. 1. the variation ViralTag improved on this