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Aura++: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A five-slots-a-day launch board that writes an AI-friendly Markdown page for every project, and gives the free tier a Pinterest pin instead of a link.
auraplusplus.com
Eligibility
Who Aura++ accepts
You need
An account at /sign-up
Their badge on your site, as one of the two conditions for a free followed link
A live project with a name and description
You'll be rejected if
Nothing structural; the constraint is five free slots a day against a 365-day scheduling window
SaaS productsIndie productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsMarketing tools
What you actually get
A project page written as detail-rich Markdown and structured for AI citations, on a site claiming 25,000 monthly views from builders and early adopters, with five free launch slots a day and a scheduling window that runs up to a year out. Every free launch gets a Pinterest post published for it, which is an unusual consolation for a tier that gets no guaranteed link.
How to submit to Aura++
1
Sign up
/sign-up creates the account; /projects/submit is the form. They also offer an AI-assisted submission from the homepage.
2
Fill the project
The page they generate is detail-rich Markdown structured for AI citations, so the description does more work here than on a board that only renders a card.
3
Choose a plan and a date
Free Launch has five slots a day, Premium at $17 has ten and reaches inside 60 days, Premium Plus at $34 has three. In practice the free date is not chosen: the picker is full for the whole year and a checkbox beneath it assigns one at least 200 days out.
4
Add the badge
The last step verifies a link to them on your homepage before the submission goes through. On the free tier the followed link back needs a top-three daily ranking as well as that badge, both conditions stated on the plan card. A plain text link to auraplusplus.com passes the check too.
5
Launch at 08:00 UTC
All launches go live at the same hour.
6
Or trade content for a premium launch
A standing offer gives a premium launch away free: launch on the nofollow tier, post about Aura++ on a subreddit like r/seo or r/saas, publish a blog post about them on your own site with a followed link to auraplusplus.com, and email the three links to hi@auraplusplus.com. They judge whether the posts qualify.
Aura++ requirements
An account on the site
Project name, live URL and description
Their badge on your site, for the free tier's conditional link
A logo and images for the launch cardoptional
Gotchas
The free tier's followed link needs a top-three daily finish and their badge on your site at the same time, exactly the same two-condition rule Open-Launch uses, and the plan card states it as a numbered list that is easy to read as one condition.
You do not pick a free launch date. Every date in the picker is full for the whole year they offer, and the way through is a checkbox under it that assigns you a random one at least 200 days out. Taking it also gives up relaunches, which only work on a date you chose by hand.
The free premium launch is real and it is paid for in content. Their terms: launch on the nofollow tier first, write a post about Aura++ on a subreddit like r/seo, r/marketing, r/saas or r/startup, publish a blog post about them on your own site carrying a followed link to auraplusplus.com, then email all three links to hi@auraplusplus.com. Only posts they judge thoughtful qualify, so the work can be done and still not count, and the blog post is a permanent followed link out of your own domain.
Relaunches are a paid feature with a cooldown attached: ten of them on Premium at 14 days apart, ten on Premium Plus at seven. The free tier gets one launch.
Let your agent submit to Aura++
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Aura++ playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.
What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 4 Aura++ rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 4 fields this form asks for, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Aura++ looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: premium is $17 a launch: a guaranteed followed link from their DR 71 domain, ten slots a day, up to 60 days ahead, a launch blog post, promotion on X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Pinterest and Facebook, ten relaunches on a 14-day cooldown, and an SEO-optimised project page. Premium Plus is $34, halved from $69 for early users, and adds a spotlight placement, three slots a day and a 7-day relaunch cooldown. A standing offer also gives a premium launch away for free, paid for in content rather than money: see the gotchas.
Types it into Aura++ in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Aura++?".
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Aura++ FAQ
How long does Aura++ approval take?
Aura++'s typical time from submission to going live is 6+ months.
How much does it cost to submit to Aura++?
Aura++ has a free submission option plus paid placement (Premium is $17 a launch: a guaranteed followed link from their DR 71 domain, ten slots a day, up to 60 days ahead, a launch blog post, promotion on X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Pinterest and Facebook, ten relaunches on a 14-day cooldown, and an SEO-optimised project page. Premium Plus is $34, halved from $69 for early users, and adds a spotlight placement, three slots a day and a 7-day relaunch cooldown. A standing offer also gives a premium launch away for free, paid for in content rather than money: see the gotchas.).
Does Aura++ give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Aura++ are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 72.
Does Aura++ require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Aura++ expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Aura++?
Nothing structural; the constraint is five free slots a day against a 365-day scheduling window.