Today marks the two-week and one-day mark since the Google helpful content update started to roll out and by the time I am writing this (at 5:30 am ET on September 9th – jet lagged) Google has still not noted that the helpful content update is done rolling out. Plus, as I noted yesterday, we are now seeing more significant volatility and fluctuations as of yesterday and more today.
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