After re-reading what I wrote I can say i was a bit harsh, but we had a client lose money due to this issue. Which reflects on our ability to service them appropriately, so I apologize for the harshness but please please look at this from a more objective approach.

Rupok, I already did this on live chat and a new thread has been started here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/404-error-on-redirection#post-1345526

Ash, Not quite sure Luis wrote this properly and combined multiple conversations him and I had, we were on live chat for over 3 hours testing this. This is flat out a bug... If you go to smartcrawl and say...I want to redirect . /franchise/ to /opportunity/franchise/ It replaces those URL's with an absolute URL even though your plugin documentation states you can do Relative URL's. (which it does not) This next portion might be considered a feature request but is rather serious. The campaign tracking variables are a very serious issue...if you see this as a feature request then I would put this at your top priority. If you have a website that runs any paid ad campaign, and you supply Campaign Tracking Variables such as ?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc you will be able to properly track conversions which is the primary reason you should even have a website. It's marketing 101.... With your plugin if I provide those variables, and then need to perform a 301 redirect, your plugin will return a 404 error because it's doing ABSOLUTE URL's. This is a big no no in the marketing world and i'm shocked that i'm catching this. I'm assuming your team is accustomed to the more layman person using your smartcrawl plugin. We are a fully integrated marketing firm and it's as if you're team is late to the game understanding what SEO is, how paid ads work and how impactful your plugin is having on the results of a marketing direction.. If we have a customer paying $100,000 per month to google for paid ads, and your plugin decides to return a 404, that's a potential $3,333 of expense not to mention the possibility of missing out on thousands of dollars of potential leads. Now there are some work-arounds with this. Go to google take an ad and change it's final destination URL...this takes the ad down, puts it back up for revision 1 by 1. This is how we found out about this issue in the first place because our ads got Disapproved due to your plugin causing a 404 on the final URL. Your plugin is flat out not handling 301 redirects properly hence why i was on live chat for 3 hours yesterday debugging it for you. (At my own expense mind you) It would be better to not have SmartCrawl offer 301 redirect until you can support it properly, that way we can use other plugins without fear of plugin conflict to handle the redirects. I am really not trying to be difficult here, but when I get "working as intended" responses it just pushes my button to no end.