69
SEO Redirection Plugin – 301 Redirect Manager
Useful redirects paired with stressful sales tactics and database bloat.
HealthyGrowing
69/100
Useful redirect features are overshadowed by aggressive upselling and concerns about database bloat.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.3★
73 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+33%
Growing fast
47 → 63 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +33% in the last year
47/day a year ago→63/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySEO Redirection Plugin is praised for its powerful redirect features and helpful support, but users frequently criticize its confusing free-vs-paid distinction and aggressive upselling tactics.
What people like
- +Effectively solves WPML page redirect issues
- +Responsive customer service with quick issue resolution
- +Provides folder-level 301 redirects and import/export of redirects for large migrations
- +Automates handling of redirect issues and clears crawl errors (404 & soft 404)
- +User-friendly interface that lets non-developers set up redirects without coding
- +Detects large numbers of 404 errors, helping site owners identify SEO problems
Common complaints
- −Lack of clear comparison between free and paid feature sets
- −Incompatible with WordPress version 4.7.8 (since 4.7.8)
- −Aggressive upsell messages that warn of thousands of broken links to push premium upgrade
- −Plugin creates massive numbers of broken-link entries in its database, raising security and trust concerns
- −Redirect settings do not persist after saving (checkbox unchecks itself)
- −Premium version can cause redirects to load indefinitely, breaking functionality
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.34★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 73 total
Latest reviews · 74 analyzed
- 2025-09-17★★★★★Good PluginAbdullah Aldeghaim
- 2023-07-07★★★★★not working in facebook due to fbclidmhjhafeezz1-shot
- 2022-10-03★★★★★Excellent with WPMLVinxTheLinx
- 2021-03-17★★★★★Whats difference between the free and the paid?cookiedough312
- 2020-02-06★★★★★Plugin did'nt Work with WP 4.7.8bessemamira
- 2019-06-07★★★★★Unable to Reach Customer Servicewhadley1-shot
- 2019-03-29★★★★★Good and Fast Customer Servicegraniteindustries
- 2019-03-22★★★★★An extension that works and an effective supportbgenevay
- 2019-03-06★★★★★Migrated from JALBUM to ENVIRA with SEO-REDIRECTIONlvisage
- 2019-01-15★★★★★Excelent Plugin and Good supportguccii531-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to SEO Redirection Plugin
Top SEO plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
54
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
66
Prior 7-day baseline
52
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
337
Mean release-day peak (30d)
54
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-18.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.12
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
80%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.32 → 4.34★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered