Highwire sells AI visibility (AcroAnswers) and content-driven SEO, and its new Channel Marketing Manager will own HubSpot landing pages and "AI visibility reporting". But the site's own sitemap tells search engines and AI crawlers to read eight staging pages set to "index, follow" (such as "the-ai-driven-cmo-staging"), and 75 URLs that redirect, 51 of them to the homepage, including seven service pages like strategic communications and HubSpot services and 41 former bios. A prospect searching "Highwire reputation management" can land on a draft or on the homepage.
First action
Set the eight staging pages to noindex today.
How to measure it
Clean sitemap URLs
- Now
- –
- Target
- 100%
- By
- 30 days
Steps
Noindex staging
Eight staging pages and the temporary slug.
HubSpot web developer 1 hour
Map redirects
Each service URL to the matching capability page.
Channel Marketing Manager 1 day
Fix bios
Old /about/ bios to /agency or the new bio page.
HubSpot web developer 2 hours
Regenerate sitemap
Only live pages.
HubSpot web developer 1 hour
Search Console
Resubmit and watch coverage.
Channel Marketing Manager 1 week
AI baseline
How assistants describe Highwire's services, before and after.
Insights & Analytics lead 2 weeks
Add to reporting
Monthly index and AI visibility check.
Channel Marketing Manager monthly
Why it works
Set the staging pages to noindex and remove them from the sitemap; map each redirected service URL to its current capability page (communications, marketing, corporate reputation) instead of the homepage; send old bios to /agency; regenerate the sitemap so it lists only live, final pages. Then baseline how AI assistants describe Highwire's services before and after, using AcroAnswers.
A clean index puts the right page in front of buyers and gives the new channel reporting a true starting point. It is also the best demo of what Highwire sells.
Ready to use
ChecklistSitemap cleanup
[ ] Noindex /media-staging and /blog-staging pages [ ] Remove the temporary slug [ ] /services/strategic-communications -> /capabilities-communications [ ] /services/digital-marketing -> /capabilities-marketing [ ] Reputation management -> /corporate-reputation [ ] Old /about/ bios -> /agency [ ] Regenerate the sitemap [ ] Resubmit in Search Console [ ] AI visibility baseline saved
Risks and how to handle them
Losing link value
Redirect to the closest page, never the homepage.
Staging used for review
Keep it behind a password instead.
Evidence
- Your websiteThe public sitemap (446 URLs, October 22, 2026) lists eight staging pages, such as /media-staging/the-ai-driven-cmo-staging and /blog-staging/crisis-communications-assessment, which load and are set to "index, follow", plus a "-temporary-slug-" URL.Source
- Your websiteOf the 381 sitemap URLs we could check on October 22, 2026, 75 answer with a redirect, 51 of them to the homepage: 41 former team bios under /about/, seven service pages such as /services/strategic-communications and /services/digital-marketing/hubspot-services, /expertise/health and /newsletter-subscription. Old case studies such as /case-studies/twilio redirect to /work.Source
- HiringChannel Marketing Manager (contract, 20 hours a week, posted October 6, 2026, reporting to the VP of Marketing, expected to convert to full-time): "owns how Highwire's marketing reaches, moves and converts audiences across social, online events, email and CRM"; owns "HubSpot marketing automation architecture: workflows, email sequences, lists, forms and landing pages"; designs "nurture tracks by sector and persona"; builds "lead scoring" with the growth team; builds "dashboards in HubSpot and GA4 that connect channel activity to pipeline"; partners with Insights & Analytics on "measurement, attribution and AI visibility reporting".Source
- News coverageHighwire launched AcroAI on April 16, 2026, described as an agentic AI platform for marketing and communications clients; it has since announced AcroIntelligence ("a single AI-powered platform to translate complex media signals into strategic, measurable action") and has an AcroAnswers page on its site.Source