November moves fast.
Between Thanksgiving, year-end deadlines, and the December holidays right around the corner, this month can easily turn reactive. The goal in November isn’t to start big new projects, it’s to protect your traffic, stay organized, and make December easier.
Here are the key areas smart bloggers focus on this month, and how to handle them without adding unnecessary stress.
1. Update Your Thanksgiving and Holiday Content
If you haven’t looked at your Thanksgiving content yet, now is the time.
Review and refresh posts tied to Thanksgiving before peak holiday traffic hits, and make sure your December holiday content is ready to go. Focus on:
- Accuracy and relevance
- Broken or outdated links
- CTAs that align with your current goals
Even small updates can make a big difference when traffic spikes.
How Clariti helps: Use Labels to tag seasonal content by holiday, then filter your dashboard to see everything in one view. Check last year’s traffic trends to prioritize which posts need immediate attention. Use My Tasks to track progress so nothing slips through before the surge hits.
2. Monitor Your Top Traffic Drivers Closely
During the busiest weeks of the year, your top-performing posts deserve extra attention.
A broken link, formatting issue, or unexpected traffic drop can have an outsized impact in November, so monitoring matters.
How Clariti helps: Create a Project for your top 20–50 posts and use Clariti’s real-time data syncing to monitor performance throughout the month. Set up Reminders to check in on key posts, and use Notes to document any changes you make so you can track impact later.
3. Fix Broken Links and Technical Issues Before Trust Takes a Hit
Nothing erodes reader trust faster than broken links during high-traffic holiday weeks.
November is the last comfortable window to get ahead of technical issues before December gets even busier.
How Clariti helps: Use Clariti’s filters to instantly surface posts with broken links or missing alt text. Create a Project like Technical Fixes and work through items systematically. My Tasks will show you exactly what’s due so fixes don’t get lost in the shuffle.
4. Plan Your December Content Updates Now
December comes with less bandwidth, so planning ahead matters.
Use November to decide which existing posts you’ll refresh, promote, or revisit next month. You don’t need a full calendar, just a short list of priorities.
How Clariti helps: Sort posts by traffic performance to identify top performers that are worth updating in December. Create a Project called December Content Plan with due dates, and My Tasks will surface them automatically when it’s time to take action.
5. Review Your Internal Linking Strategy Before Year-End
Before the year wraps up, it’s worth strengthening how your content connects.
Internal links help search engines understand topical authority and help readers naturally move through your site, especially between seasonal and evergreen posts.
How Clariti helps: Use Super Search to quickly locate posts by topic, then track internal linking updates inside Projects. As you work through each post, check it off and clearly see what’s been completed.
6. Set Yourself Up for January Reviews (While It’s Still Fresh)
Future-you will thank you for this one.
While holiday performance is top of mind, use November to plan ahead for January content reviews, especially for your biggest seasonal posts.
How Clariti helps (Premium): Use Reminders to schedule January check-ins for top holiday content. When January arrives, My Reminders will surface them automatically so you can analyze performance, document what worked, and update posts for next year without starting from scratch.
November doesn’t need to feel chaotic to be productive.
By protecting your top content, staying on top of technical details, and planning just far enough ahead, you can move through this month with confidence and make December far less overwhelming.
Before jumping into a new planning cycle, December offers space to pause, reflect, and reset.
This post is part of our Fall Planning Series for bloggers, focused on refining your content and priorities as you head into the final stretch of the year.
Ready to refine your content and stay focused through the rest of the year? See how Clariti’s plans support thoughtful planning and follow-through.
About the Author
Jen is the Associate General Manager at Clariti with a soft spot for great tech and good snacks. She has a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (which is a fancy way of saying she’s really into how people and tech get along). When she’s not working, you can usually find her hanging out with her family or baking something she’ll insist is “just a little treat.”
