<b>Q: My monitor shows "up" but follows a redirect to a parked page. Is that a problem?</b>

<b>Q: My monitor shows "up" but follows a redirect to a parked page. Is that a problem?</b>

A: Yes, and it's a sneaky one. Many monitors follow redirects by default and report 200 OK on wherever they land. So if your domain quietly 301s to a registrar parking page, an expired-domain notice, or an HTTP-to-broken-HTTPS loop, the check still goes green.

Two defenses:
— Add a keyword assertion on real page content, so landing on a parked page fails the check even with a 200.
— Set the monitor to flag unexpected redirects, or pin the check to the final HTTPS URL and treat any redirect away from it as down.

Follow-up that catches affiliate folks specifically: monitor your money pages and redirect/cloaking links separately. A working homepage tells you nothing about whether your tracking link still resolves to the offer.

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