Kentico 13 MVC Smart Search Index Page builder page HTML not indexed

In your page type configuration go to the Search tab and choose BOTH (html and content). This will allow you to get both the rendered HTML and the structured content of those pages. You can also add some data attributes into your markup for things you don't want indexed like the header and footer by adding this attribute to your wrapping element data-ktc-search-exclude. I'd also suggest adding that attribute to your side navigation items and other areas you don't want indexed.

When configuring your page type search attributes, be sure to NOT use the "default" settings that Kentico provides as they will not work for most scenarios. Be sure to read what each of the "local options" do. i.e.: Content, Searchable, Tokenized, Index update trigger.

Follow this documentation for further guidance.

Hi Brendan, that we tried already but it didn't work. Is there anything that may hinder that? In our old K12 environment it was working fine.

Can it be that the crawler gets blocked for instance. Would we see any log entry for this?

Maybe provide more specific information around how your index is configured, what settings you have for each of the page types and how you're searching for content. Right now I'm just guessing based on the limited amount of information you've provided.

What is the Presentation URL set? Is the admin app able to "crawl" the live site app? When using Fiddler, do you see the page crawler requests made to the live site?