: Why is google listing HTTP 405 pages in the "Indexing Errors/Other" section of Search Console? I have subpages used for AJAX which allow only HTTP POST and return HTTP 405 "Method Not Allowed"

@Eichhorn148

There is nothing to fix here. You don't want Googlebot crawling and indexing those URLs. Google is reporting that it tried crawling them, but got an error.

Fix errors that happen on pages that have content you want indexed. If Googlebot got 405 errors on normal pages, that would be a problem.

These crawl errors are expected. You have set it up in such a way that any visitor or bot that fetches the URL with a GET will see an appropriate error. That is all that has happened: Google got an appropriate error and listed in the appropriate report.

Crawl errors on non-content URLs don't hurt your site in any way. Google expects to encounter 404 errors when crawling healthy sites. They have even said that a million non-content 404 errors in that report won't adversely effect your site. The same goes for other errors. If it is on a page that doesn't have indexable content, there is no need to worry about Googlebot encountering it.

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@Caterina187

It sounds like you need to allow the use of the GET method on that subdirectory. HEAD would also be safe.

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