aura++

aura++ is a product-launch directory offering free scheduled listings and paid options that skip its substantial publication queue. Our free submission was assigned a launch date of 17 March 2027 - more than seven months after submission - making the free plan practically useless for timely promotion.

What’s included? ¶

aura++ collects the standard information required to create a reasonably detailed product page.

A submission can include:

• Project name
• Website URL
• Short project description
• Long description
• Logo
• Screenshots
• Categories
• Technology stack
• Supported platforms
• Pricing models

Once submitted through the free plan, the product joins a launch queue containing only five available publication slots per day.

Free launches are featured on the aura++ homepage and receive a Pinterest post. However, they do not automatically receive a dofollow backlink. That link is only awarded if the product finishes within the top three of its daily ranking and the submitter displays a reciprocal aura++ backlink on their own website.

What do you need to supply? ¶

These are conventional submission requirements and should only take a short time to complete if the product information and imagery are already available.

The problem is not the form. It is the wait after submitting it.

Results ¶

Truly Analytics was submitted to aura++ using its free launch option.

The product was assigned a scheduled launch date of 17 March 2027. That is more than seven months after its 2 August 2026 submission and means there is currently no public Truly Analytics product page.

As a result:

• Truly Analytics cannot yet be found within the live directory
• There is no public listing for search engines to crawl
• No backlink can currently be verified
• Google has not indexed an aura++ listing
• Brave has not indexed an aura++ listing
• No measurable referral traffic has been generated

First Party Attribution recorded no traffic from auraplusplus.com:

These results are expected while the product remains unpublished. However, scheduling a launch more than seven months into the future severely limits the practical value of the free plan.

aura++ had a domain rating of 71 when checked. This is respectable, but substantially lower than some of the other product directories reviewed. More importantly, free submission does not guarantee a dofollow backlink from that domain.

How the free launch works ¶

aura++ allows only five free launches each day. Restricting the available slots creates a long queue and encourages submitters to purchase an expedited launch.

A free listing reportedly receives:

• One of five daily launch slots
• Homepage exposure on launch day
• A Pinterest post
• Eligibility for the daily ranking
• A conditional dofollow backlink

The backlink is subject to two conditions:

1. The product must finish within the top three of its daily ranking.
2. The submitter must display a backlink to aura++ on their own website.

This considerably weakens the free backlink proposition. A submitter may wait more than seven months, promote the launch sufficiently to reach the top three and provide a reciprocal link, yet still receive no guaranteed backlink until all conditions are met.

The free plan is therefore less of a straightforward directory submission and more of a delayed competition for reciprocal backlink placement.

Paid vs Free ¶

The $17 Premium option changes the proposition considerably. It removes the excessive wait and guarantees the dofollow backlink rather than making it dependent upon rankings and a reciprocal link.

Premium also includes:

• An expedited launch
• One of ten daily premium slots
• A guaranteed dofollow backlink
• A dedicated launch blog post
• Social media promotion

At $17, this is inexpensive compared with most advertising channels. However, it should still be treated as a backlink and promotional experiment rather than an assumed source of customers.

The $34 Premium Plus option adds further promotion and indexing opportunities. Its value would depend on exactly where the product is featured, whether the additional pages are crawlable and whether the promotion produces genuine visits.

We have not purchased either paid option, so their indexing, traffic and conversion performance remain untested.

Final verdict ¶

Skip the free queue, consider the $17 premium launch.

The aura++ free plan technically provides a product launch without charge, but a seven-month wait makes it irrelevant for any business seeking current exposure.

A product submitted in August 2026 is unlikely to benefit from a launch scheduled for March 2027. Its positioning, features, screenshots and pricing may all have changed by the time the listing appears.

The free backlink terms are also poor. Receiving a dofollow link requires the product to rank within the daily top three and the submitter to link back to aura++. This means the business must help promote and strengthen the directory without being guaranteed the backlink it originally wanted.

There is currently no live Truly Analytics listing, no search-engine indexing and no traffic from auraplusplus.com. Truly Analytics cannot measure exposure from a page that will not exist publicly for several more months.

aura++ appears primarily designed to convert submitters from its impractically slow free queue into paid launches. The limited daily availability creates artificial scarcity, while the guaranteed backlink and immediate publication are reserved for paying customers.

At $17, Premium is cheap enough to justify a controlled experiment. A guaranteed dofollow backlink from a DR 71 domain, combined with a launch post and social promotion, may provide more measurable value than spending the same amount on a small pay-per-click campaign.

The important point is to measure it properly. If Truly Analytics purchases the premium launch, the test should determine:

• Whether the listing is published immediately
• Whether the backlink is genuinely dofollow
• Whether Google and Brave index the listing and launch article
• Whether the social promotion generates visits
• Whether those visitors engage with the product
• Whether any visitors start a trial or convert

Do not rely on the free plan unless publication timing is completely irrelevant. The queue is too long, and the eventual backlink is too conditional to make the wait worthwhile.

The $17 Premium launch is the only option that appears commercially sensible. It may be worth testing in the future, but its actual value should be judged through indexing, attributed traffic and conversions rather than aura++’s domain rating alone.

Truly Analytics ¶

Truly Analytics established that the scheduled aura++ submission produced no measurable referral activity while waiting for its March 2027 publication date.

First Party Attribution can measure whether a future premium or free launch generates genuine visitors rather than merely creating another directory page.

This would allow the paid launch to be evaluated as a complete acquisition experiment, including its listing, backlink, launch article, social promotion, visitor engagement and resulting conversions.

Truly Analytics helps organisations understand who is visiting their website, what their real traffic looks like, where it came from, and which marketing and sales activity delivers genuine value.