Your schema images point at URLs Googlebot can't fetch

Your schema images point at URLs Googlebot can't fetch

A quiet eligibility killer surfacing in reports: image values in Product and Article markup that resolve to login-gated CDNs, hotlink-protected paths, or data: URIs. The markup validates because the syntax is fine, but Google can't retrieve the asset, so the rich result silently degrades or disappears.

What it means for you: every image URL in JSON-LD must be a publicly crawlable, absolute URL — not relative, not behind a referrer check, not blocked in robots.txt. Fetch each one with no cookies and a Googlebot user agent to confirm a 200.

Watch this: lazy-loaded image CDNs that serve a placeholder to bots return a tiny 1x1, which fails Google's minimum dimension thresholds and quietly disqualifies the snippet.