Page is https://www.hrblock.com.au/income-tax-course
Page name is Australia's leading income tax course, and page content contains a lot of "income", "course", "tax" wording.

But If I do a keyword search for "tax course" or "course", the page does not show up in the search results.
Any ideas why?

Thanks,
Peter

Did you manage to sort this out? I'm having the same problem. Some words can't be found...

Nope, still waiting for answer.

That's hard to say, really. I suppose you're using default fulltext site search? Have you checked the page settings to make sure that 'Show in search' isn't accidentally disabled?

Also default search only searches SiteTree -> (Title, MenuTitle, Content, MetaDescription) and File -> (Filename, Title, Content). So if you're using other fields, matches will not be found.

I've narrowed it down to this. It's probably a mysql setting (minimum word length that get indexed). Problem is... if on shared hosting, provider probably won't change it to 3. According to my information default is 4. Would be nice if it could be set from SS_config though.

@guy - yes that's not really fixable on shared hosting.

I've noticed that on MySQL 5.6, where you can do a fulltext search on InnoDB tables, in some cases a minimum of 3 character seems to be enabled by default for some reason... so if you're on 5.6, and you're still using MyISAM you could try converting tables to innoDB...

I think PeterLu's problem is different, because he's searching on 'course' and still not finding his page.