# FAQ > Answers about Lede Press projects, publications, pricing, launch days, badges, and dofollow links. - Canonical: https://ledepress.com/faq - Markdown: https://ledepress.com/faq.md - Site: Lede Press (https://ledepress.com) Organised answers about projects, publications, pricing, launch days, badges, and dofollow links. ## Basics ### What is Lede Press? Lede Press is a publication at https://ledepress.com. You create a free project for your product, then publish an editorial article under it. Each publication includes one contextual dofollow link and is listed in public the day it goes live. ### What is the difference between a project and a publication? A project is the product record: name, website, summary, categories, competitors, and assets. It is free and public with a nofollow site link. A publication is the editorial article under that project. It carries the single dofollow link and is what appears in the homepage launch feed. ### How is this different from a logo listing or directory? A logo listing is a catalog row. A Lede Press publication is a page someone can read, with the product link inside the text. The homepage indexes those pages by launch day. ### Is the link dofollow? Yes. Every published publication has one dofollow link. The anchor does not use nofollow, sponsored, or ugc. Open the live URL and inspect the link — that attribute is guaranteed. A ranking is not. ## Pricing and plans ### What does it cost? Projects are free. One free publication is allowed per website if your site displays a Lede Press badge that links back here. Additional publications for that website are $29. Both include a guaranteed dofollow backlink. The $29 plan also includes an SEO and GEO optimized article, a Pinterest pin, and IndexNow submission. ### What does the free plan require? Your site must display a Lede Press badge that links to https://ledepress.com, and it should stay up while the page is live. Free publications share a daily queue of 5 slots. You do not get the SEO/GEO pass, the Pinterest pin, or IndexNow on the free plan. ### What do I get for $29? An editorial publication with one dofollow link, no badge requirement, an SEO and GEO optimized article, a Pinterest pin that links to the article, and IndexNow submission from the dashboard once the page is live. Paid pages do not take a free queue slot. ### What is IndexNow? IndexNow notifies participating search engines that a URL is new or updated. On a paid live publication, use Actions → Submit to IndexNow. A successful response emails you a confirmation. It does not guarantee a crawl or ranking. Free publications do not include IndexNow. ### What do SEO and GEO mean here? SEO means the title, summary, headings, and link are edited so a search engine can tell what the product is. GEO (generative engine optimization) means the opening states what the product is, who it is for, and where the link goes, in sentences an answer engine can quote. Both passes are on the $29 plan only. ### Why is this $29 when agencies charge much more? Lede Press is the publication. Agencies often charge $500 to $1,000 for one editorial backlink on a site you do not run. Here the page is published on this domain, listed in public, and priced at $29 with the optimization pass and pin — or free with the badge. ## Projects ### How many projects can I create? You can create multiple projects, but only one project is allowed per website URL. Categories are limited to three per project. ### Are project pages indexed? Published projects are public. The site link on a project page is nofollow. The dofollow editorial link lives on the publication article, not the project page. ### Can I delete a project? Yes, from the dashboard Actions menu after confirming. Deleting a project also permanently deletes its publications. ## Publications ### What do I need to submit a publication? A project, then a title, summary, body (or AI draft), product name, link text and URL, up to three categories, optional tags, a featured image, and a launch day. Free plans also need a verified badge. ### What does AI write article do? It drafts the title, summary, and HTML body from the project and competitors, sets a featured image from the project site when available, and inserts relevant rehosted images into the article. You can still edit everything before scheduling. ### How many categories and tags can I use? Up to three categories per publication. Tags are optional labels for narrower discovery; keep them short and relevant. ### Can I delete a publication? Yes, from the dashboard Actions menu after confirming. Deletion is permanent. ## Launch schedule ### When do publications go live? Publications go live at 08:00 UTC on the chosen launch day. Free plans get up to 5 launches per day. Paid publications are unlimited and do not consume free slots. ### What do Draft, Pending, Scheduled, and Published mean? Draft means the article is saved but not queued. Pending means a $29 publication is waiting for payment. Scheduled means it is queued for a launch day at 08:00 UTC. Published means it is live on the site and listed in the public feed. ### What happens after I pay $29? When payment confirms, the publication is marked paid and automatically scheduled for the launch day you selected. You do not need to schedule it again. ### Why do free pages sometimes wait? Lede Press publishes 5 free pages each day. If that day's slots are full, a free page stays scheduled for a later day in queue order. A $29 page does not wait in that free queue. ## Account and support ### How do I sign in? Use an email magic link, or Google or GitHub when those options are enabled. Magic-link email is sent through Autosend. ### Will I get email updates? Yes. You receive emails when a project is created or deleted, and when a publication is created, scheduled, published (goes live), or deleted. ### How do I request a correction or takedown? Email hi@ledepress.com with the page URL, what is wrong, and how to reach you. 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