The Error “Not Available for bots to index”, is an error that is invoked when you are working on the windows store and are trying to link your app product page.
Given below is the snippet of the error you might get:
Not Available for bots to indexTo fix the error and to make sure the error is not repeated again it is important to know the cause of the error and how to fix the error.
There was a recent glitch from Microsoft side that created the issue and users were seeing the error Not Available for bots to index into their Microsoft app link.
The error “Not Available for bots to index” is seen because it appears to be a server-side rate limiting/caching problem at Microsoft end.
This throttling appears to be particular to an app and an availability zone. Since the number of new installs has not significantly decreased, so issue appears to be faced again and again.
To fix the error, “Not Available for bots to index”, you can try to append a random text at the end of the URL as a workaround. Also you can try GCLID because it is the least objectionable method.
To fix the issue you will have to append a random text at the end of the URL as a workaround.
So now your mentioned URL should look something like the below mentioned URL:
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/[APPNAME]/[APPID]?gclid=[f-your GCLID]The “f-xxxx” value is produced using the timestamp’s md5() function, though it could also be any constantly-changing value, such as a random number.
This should help you to fix the issue, “Not Available for bots to index” in Microsoft app.