SEO isn’t the game anymore (and that’s okay)

For a long time, “doing marketing” on the web meant obsessing over SEO: keywords, backlinks, and endless pages designed to rank.

Search is changing. When people search “dance teacher music app” or “dance class music app”, AI Overviews can already summarize the category — and in our case, they’ve surfaced BarreNotes/Cadance directly in that summary.

Google AI Overview result mentioning BarreNotes/Cadance for tempo control and timers
AI Overview mentioning BarreNotes/Cadance for tempo control and timers.
Google AI Overview result mentioning Cadance (formerly BarreNotes) as a dance class music app
AI Overview mentioning Cadance (formerly BarreNotes) for dance class music.

What this means for Cadance

Instead of chasing every SEO trick, we’d rather focus on what matters:

  • Product quality: tempo control, start delays, looping, offline reliability — the things teachers feel in class.
  • Clarity: explain what Cadance is in plain language, and how it relates to BarreNotes.
  • Trust: a clean site, transparent pages, and an app experience that matches the promises.

So what do we do instead of “SEO”?

We write pages that answer real questions — not because we’re trying to game rankings, but because teachers deserve straightforward answers:

  • BarreNotes → Cadance: what changed, why the name, and how to move forward.
  • How To: short videos that show exactly how the core workflows feel.
  • FAQ: quick answers without fluff.

If an AI summary is going to quote us, the best strategy is to make sure the truth is easy to find and easy to understand.