Sadar, thank you for replying! I purchased, installed and configured the plugin several days ago, last week Wednesday!
The new blog post was added yesterday afternoon, and you can see the friendly URL when you put your mouse over its Title:
http://bit.ly/1wWzAl3
When you click to view the entire blog post, you will see the URL in the address bar change to the non-friendly URL, which is the one Google indexed.
In the plugin settings, I have repeatedly UNticked "Old slug redirect" under the "Slug" section and saved to test, but it keeps reverting back to this box being ticked.
Also, I have "Canonical redirect" and "Canonical REL attribute" ticked off under the "General" settings, and not sure if this is why the friendly URL is being reverted to the non-friendly URL when clicking the blog post.
I thought the whole purpose of this plugin was to keep the friendly URL for SEO, which I'm very big on, and the reason I purchased the plugin. Is there a bug somewhere or what can I do on my end to prevent the friendly url from reverting to the redirected non-friendly url?
Thank you so much!