: Why is Googlebot calling an AJAX method with GET rather than POST? I have an AJAX call on my site that does a POST and returns data. Googlebot is crawling these URLs but it is attempting

@LarsenBagley505

GET requests could be seen as unique url. So any bot can access get data more quickly as unique url and judge contents.

You can also cross verify all GET ajax calls againsts request url and desired format.

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@Si4351233

Googlebot only performs POST requests under very limited circumstances where it is believed by the Googlebot that it is safe and appropriate. Google takes precautions to avoid performing tasks on a site that could result in executing an unintended user action and Google making POST requests is for crawling purposes only to index what the end user would see.

Google states in its webmasters blog that to make your site better for crawling remember that Google prefers GET for fetching requests unless there is a very specific reason to use POST.

A good rule of thumb to follow is...


A GET request is used to get data from the server.
A POST request is used for modifying data on the server

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