How to Submit to Aura++, and Which of the Four Doors You Actually Want
Aura++ is a launch platform on a DR 72 domain, and the submission is a five step wizard ending on a step called Backlink. That last word is the whole decision. There are four ways in, two of them cost nothing, and only some of them end with a followed link to your site.
The short answer: paying $17 guarantees it, the free tier earns it by finishing Top 3 on launch day with their badge live on your site, and the tier actually named No-Follow never gets one by design. Across their 1,581 project pages, 1,050 of those links are followed and 531 are not. Pick before you start typing, because the badge is the part with a real cost attached.
Not money. The badge they ask you to display is an anchor pointing at auraplusplus.com with no rel attribute on it, so mounting it hands them a followed link from your site in exchange for one from theirs. That is a trade rather than a gift: their link for yours. Their system then scans your domain to verify it, typically within a few hours.
Aura++ submission at a glance
| Feature | Aura++ |
|---|---|
| What it is | A daily launch platform |
| Where | auraplusplus.com, account required |
| The form | 5 steps, ending on Backlink |
| Description | 200 words minimum |
| Tiers | $0, $0, $17, $34 |
| Daily slots | 5 free, 10 premium, 3 plus |
| Free link | Top 3 plus a verified badge |
| Paid link | Followed, 703 of 703 |
| Catalog | 1,050 followed of 1,581 |
| Approval | "24-48 hours", their words |
| Domain | DR 72 on Ahrefs |
Per auraplusplus.com, its robots.txt and sitemap-index.xml, /pricing, /faq, /legal, /legal/badges, /tools/claim-dofollow-link and /dr-booster, plus a crawl of every project page, read on 19 August 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker, which returned 72 for auraplusplus.com on that date; the site advertises its own domain as DR 71 throughout. No second provider was queried. Nothing was submitted, no account was created and no payment was made; the five wizard steps are described from screenshots of the live form. robots.txt allows everything and declares the sitemap, which holds 4,108 URLs: 1,582 project pages, 1,564 launch posts, 790 founder pages, 48 studio posts and the rest marketing and legal. The link census covers all 1,582 project pages, of which 1,581 returned 200; each carries exactly one anchor whose href contains utm_source=auraplusplus, which is the project's own website link, and the destination also receives utm_medium, utm_campaign, ref and source parameters. 1,050 of those anchors carry rel of noopener alone and 531 carry noopener nofollow. All 1,581 pages carry a robots meta of index, follow and are their own canonical. Tier figures come from the markdown mirror each project serves at its own URL with .md appended, whose front matter carries tier, status, upvotes, created and launched; all 1,581 were read and joined to the link census by slug, so the tier split is catalog-wide rather than sampled and the two counts reconcile exactly, 655 premium plus 48 premium plus plus 347 followed free listings making the 1,050 followed anchors. Catalog tier mix is 655 premium, 479 no-follow, 399 free and 48 premium plus. Launch throughput comes from the same front matter: 372 distinct launch days, a median of 4 launches a day and a maximum of 11, with no day exceeding the published caps. Wait figures come from the platform's embedded card records, which carry createdAt and scheduledLaunchDate and surface podium finishers, so they are a sample rather than a census: median 23 days from creation to scheduled launch on the free tier against a maximum of 188, 10 days on no-follow, 1 day on premium and 0 on premium plus. The badge markup is quoted from /legal/badges, where the light snippet is well formed and the dark snippet's image src carries a doubled scheme; both underlying assets return 200. Launch post figures come from a random sample of 60 of the 1,564 posts. Prices, slot counts, scheduling windows, approval time and refund wording are quoted from /pricing and /faq. Submitator submits here as part of its catalog: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with DR shown, badges installed and kept live, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
The four doors, and what each one ends with
Two of these cost nothing and behave differently. Read the last column before you pick a tier in the wizard.
Same launch, no badge to mount, nofollow by design. The honest option if you do not want to put their badge up.
Followed link only if you finish Top 3 that day and their badge is verified on your site. 5 slots a day, and the longest queue.
Followed link guaranteed, plus a second one in the launch blog post, social promotion and a much shorter wait. 10 slots a day.
Everything in Premium plus the spotlight placement and the fastest scheduling. 3 slots a day, priced as a cut from $69.
How to submit to Aura++, step by step
- 1
Decide the tier before you open the wizard
The last of the five steps is called Backlink, but the decision is made two steps earlier, on Launch Date, where you pick a launch plan. If you are not willing to put their badge on your site, the No-Follow tier is the one that matches what you are actually doing, and choosing Free instead just means a nofollow link after a much longer wait.
- 2
Fill Project Info, and write more than you want to
Name, website URL, an optional affiliate URL, then a description with a hard floor of 200 words and 400+ recommended. The editor is a rich text one with headings, lists, quotes, images, video and tables, so the field expects a small page rather than a tagline. There is an AI Autofill button beside the website field; whatever it produces is a draft to overwrite, not a submission.
- 3
Add the logo and the product image
Two images, both required. The logo is capped at 1MB and wants a 1:1 square, with 256x256 suggested. The product image wants 16:9, with 800x450 suggested. Neither is optional, so have both ready before you start rather than hunting for a square crop halfway through the wizard.
- 4
Fill Details: three categories, five technologies
Up to 3 categories from a list that runs from E-commerce and Education Tech through Health Tech and Internet of Things. Up to 5 tech stack tags typed in and entered one at a time. Platforms as checkboxes, Web through Api and Other. A pricing model of Free, Freemium or Paid. Maker Name is required and they tell you where it goes: "Used in launch blog posts, social content, and other project communications."
- 5
Pick a launch date, and read the queue
Everything launches at 8:00 UTC and the day is capped at 18 projects. The free plan card is where the real cost of free appears, in their own words: "200+ day waiting period for launch dates". Premium buys its way past that queue, which is what "Skip Free Queue - Launch faster" is selling, alongside the guaranteed link.
- 6
Mount the badge if you took the free route
The final step wants the backlink in place. Their published snippet is an anchor to auraplusplus.com around a badge image, and their system scans your domain to verify it, typically within a few hours. One caution when you copy it: the dark theme snippet on their badges page carries a doubled scheme in the image address, so the image will not load as pasted, while the light one is fine.
What the link is, measured
Every project page carries exactly one anchor out to the project's own site, tagged with utm_source=auraplusplus and four more parameters. Across all 1,581 project pages that returned, 1,050 of those anchors are followed and 531 carry nofollow. Every page is set to index, follow and is its own canonical.
The split is not random, and it lands where their pricing page says it will. Every project also serves a markdown mirror that names its tier, so this can be read across the whole catalog rather than a sample: all 655 premium and all 48 premium plus listings carry a followed link, all 479 listings on the tier named No-Follow carry nofollow, and 347 of the 399 free listings carry one. The rule they publish is the rule the markup obeys, and the free tier is the only place it is conditional.
The badge is a trade, not a formality
On the free tier the podium is only half the condition. The other half is that their badge has to be live on your site and verified, and the badge they publish is a plain anchor to auraplusplus.com wrapped around an image, carrying no rel attribute. So the free route is an exchange of followed links rather than a favour, which is worth seeing clearly before you decide it is free.
They also sell the same idea unbundled. A founder profile link is nofollow by default and a one time $5 payment turns it followed, one per founder, no launch required. They publish the reasoning too: "We charge a small fee to prevent multi-account abuse of our DR 71 domain."
The queue is the product
Two numbers describe the same free tier and only one of them is in the shop window. The pricing page offers a "365 days scheduling window", which reads as generosity. The wizard, once you are inside it, says "200+ day waiting period for launch dates".
Those are two different pictures rather than one. The wizard describes the queue as it stands today; launches that already ran show a gap between creating a project and its scheduled launch of a median 23 days on the free tier and 10 on No-Follow, against 1 day on Premium and 0 on Premium Plus. The longest free gap in the sample was 188 days. Either way the $17 buys a link and a place near the front.
Who runs it
Next.js on Vercel, with Stripe and Polar taking payments, uploadthing handling the uploads, Umami on analytics and Cloudflare Turnstile on the forms. The published contact address is hi@auraplusplus.com. The sitemap holds 4,108 URLs, of which 1,582 are projects, 1,564 are launch posts and 790 are founder pages, so the catalog is real rather than a shell.
There is a nice symmetry in their own homepage, too. It preloads a Top 1 badge image from open-launch.com, which is to say Aura++ won a launch elsewhere and now wears the badge for it, exactly the arrangement it asks of its own free tier.
The badge is the part that gets forgotten.
A verified badge is what turns the free tier's link from nofollow into followed, and it has to stay up. We install it and keep it live here, and on the other directories in your list that ask for one.
Worth doing?
Yes, and on its own terms it is a strong one. The domain measures DR 72, the listing is an indexable page of its own rather than a card, the rules about which links are followed are published plainly and then honoured in the markup, and there is a genuinely free route to a followed link that does not involve paying anyone.
The thing to decide is which door. If you will host the badge, the free tier is worth the queue, and the field is smaller than the caps suggest at a median of 4 launches a day. If you will not, take No-Follow and know what you are getting. If the launch matters on a date, Premium is what the date costs.
Four tiers. The badge decides.
DR 72, an account and a five step wizard wanting 200 words and two images. Premium at $17 guarantees a followed link and skips the queue. Free earns one by finishing Top 3 with their badge verified on your site. The tier named No-Follow never does. Across 1,581 project pages, 1,050 links are followed. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Is Aura++ free to submit to?
Two of the four tiers cost nothing, and they are not the same offer. Free ($0) puts you in the queue with a path to a followed link, but only if you finish Top 3 on your launch day and have the Aura++ badge verified on your own site. No-Follow ($0) is the same launch without the badge requirement, and in their words "Listing links stay nofollow by design, and you don't need badge verification on your site." Premium is $17 a launch and Premium Plus is $34, currently shown as reduced from $69.
Does an Aura++ listing give you a dofollow backlink?
It depends on the tier, and the pattern holds in the data rather than only in the marketing. Across all 1,581 project pages, 1,050 carry a followed link to the project's site and 531 carry nofollow. Every project also publishes a markdown mirror naming its tier, so the split can be read across the whole catalog rather than a sample: all 655 premium and all 48 premium plus listings carry a followed link, all 479 listings on the tier named No-Follow carry nofollow, and 347 of the 399 free listings carry one.
What is the Aura++ badge requirement?
It is the condition attached to the free tier's followed link, and it is a link back. The badge they publish is an anchor to auraplusplus.com wrapped around an image, with no rel attribute on it, so putting it up means giving them a followed link from your own site. Their FAQ describes the check as automatic: "After you add our badge to your website, our system scans your domain to verify it. Once verified, you'll see a checkmark on your project page — typically within a few hours."
How long do you wait for a free launch on Aura++?
Longer than the pricing page suggests. The public page frames the free tier as a "365 days scheduling window", which sounds like flexibility, while the submission wizard puts a number on the same queue: "200+ day waiting period for launch dates". Launches that already ran show a different picture: among the free ones in our sample the gap between creation and going live ran to a median of 23 days and a maximum of 188. Premium exists to jump this, with a median gap of one day.
What does the Aura++ submission form ask for?
Five steps: Project Info, Details, Launch Date, Review and Backlink. The first step wants a name, a website URL, an optional affiliate URL, a description of at least 200 words with 400+ recommended, a square logo under 1MB and a 16:9 product image. The second wants up to 3 categories, up to 5 tech stack tags, platforms, a pricing model and a maker name, with GitHub and Twitter optional. There is an AI Autofill button next to the website field, and a rich text editor for the description.
How many projects launch on Aura++ each day?
Fewer than the caps imply. Their published figure covers three of the four tiers, "We launch up to 5 free projects, 10 premium projects, and 3 premium plus projects daily to maintain quality and visibility for all launches", and No-Follow slots are not published anywhere. What actually happens is smaller: across the 372 launch days in the catalog the median day carried 4 launches and the busiest carried 11. Everything goes live at 8:00 UTC. Rankings, in their words, "are based on community engagement—primarily upvotes and comments", so the free tier's followed link turns on how your launch day goes.
How do you get into the Aura++ Top 3?
By being upvoted and talked about on your launch day, since that is the whole free-tier condition. Their FAQ puts it plainly: "Project rankings are based on community engagement—primarily upvotes and comments. The more your project resonates with our audience, the higher it ranks on daily, weekly, and monthly leaderboards." The day is capped at 18 launches across the tiers, everything goes live at 8:00 UTC and being around to answer comments is their own advice: "Not required, but recommended."
How long does Aura++ take to approve a submission?
Their FAQ says "Most projects are reviewed and approved within 24-48 hours", with priority review on the paid tiers, and approval is separate from your launch date. Approval gets you scheduled; the queue decides when you actually go live. Refunds are limited once you are in: "refunds are generally not available once a project is scheduled or launched."
Does the Aura++ launch blog post link to your site?
On the paid tiers, which is a second followed link rather than a repeat of the first. Their FAQ states that "Premium and Premium Plus posts include dofollow links to your website; Free and No-Follow posts use nofollow on outbound links." In a sample of 60 launch posts, 23 carried at least one followed link to the project's own site and all 60 were set to index, follow.
Does Submitator submit to Aura++?
Yes, on both routes. We run the followed one, which means installing the Aura++ badge on your site and keeping it live so the verification passes, and the plain No-Follow one where you just want the listing. Pricing is one-time rather than a subscription: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, picked by you from a rated list with the DR shown next to each. A rejection comes back as +1 directory, and there is a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
More submit-to guides.
Thirty launches, and the badge stays up.
$29 covers thirty directories on one payment. You pick them from a rated list, and where a followed link depends on a badge staying up, keeping it up is our job rather than yours.