: Webmaster Tools "Fetch as Google" doesn't fetch my js/css/images on a CDN I've discovered that when I do Google Webmaster Tools --> Fetch as Google on a page on my site (let's call it http://example.com),

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I've discovered that when I do Google Webmaster Tools --> Fetch as Google on a page on my site (let's call it example.com), it shows the static assets (js, css, and images) as Temporarily unreachable.

My static assets are behind an Amazon CloudFront CDN distribution, with the origin being my site, example.com. I have CNAMEd the CloudFront to assets.example.com.

That's exactly what is showing as "Temporarily unreachable" - all the css and js hosted at assets.example.com (for example assets.example.com/assets/application.css). The thing is, I can reach all those files just fine. I fear that googlebot is not seeing the js and css of my site, since when I do a Fetch and Render it says "This is how Googlebot saw the page:" and sure enough it's the page as it would look with no css or js.

I went through the responses on this somewhat similar question, but my CloudFront distribution doesn't even have a robots.txt that could be blocking anything, and the response headers when I do a curl -I on my css & js don't show anything alarming.

What could be causing googlebot to say that my static assets are Temporarily unreachable? Thanks!

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