The Lakes is the 1980s lake-centered community built around the private 30-acre Lake Sahara, between Durango Drive and Hualapai Way in the west Las Vegas Valley. Eclipse Marketing ranks The Lakes businesses in Google Search, the Maps 3-pack and AI answers, and founder Michael Vale works on every strategy.
Eclipse Marketing is a founder-led SEO agency that serves The Lakes from its Las Vegas office at 7885 W Flamingo Rd, about 10 minutes south of Lake Sahara. The team ranks The Lakes businesses in Google Search, the Google Maps 3-pack and AI answers such as Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT, takes 1 client per industry in each city and guarantees a Top 3 Google ranking within 12 months.
The Lakes campaigns run from the same office and team as our Las Vegas SEO agency, so your plan starts with the competitors already ranking along Sahara Avenue, Durango Drive and Desert Inn Road.
Office visits by appointment. Most clients in The Lakes meet Mike on a video call first.
The Lakes sits inside the City of Las Vegas, built in the mid-1980s around the private 30-acre Lake Sahara. The original plan called for two lakes, which is how the community got its plural name before it was reduced to one.
Residents say Summerlin, Google Maps labels the neighborhood The Lakes in ZIP 89117, and some old mail still reads “The Lakes, NV 89163” from the Citibank payment center that once operated here. Your pages, your Business Profile and your schema have to use the right name in the right place.
The title tag, H1 and first sentence name the community and the state, the way this page does. 1 page per area, so The Lakes never shares a page with Summerlin or Spring Valley.
Sahara Avenue, Durango Drive, Desert Inn Road, Hualapai Way and Lake Sahara are the words customers type after “near”. They belong in the copy, not stuffed into the title.
The same business name, address and phone on your website, your Google Business Profile and your schema, in the residential ZIP 89117. Not the old Citibank 89163 “The Lakes, NV” ZIP, which the post office and Google read as a separate commercial address.
The Lakes is residential from Sahara down to Desert Inn, so most of its business addresses sit on the edges along Durango Drive and Sahara Avenue. Searches cluster around these 5 places, and each one points to a different customer.
Center of The Lakes, off Lake Sahara Dr
The private 30-acre lake is the community’s centerpiece, ringed by tree-lined walking and jogging paths and waterfront homes with private docks. Non-motorized and electric boating and stocked fishing are allowed; swimming is not.
Who searches here: walkers, runners, dog owners and waterfront homeowners. Pet care, physical therapy, fitness studios, dock and pool service win these searches.9600 W Sahara Ave, at Grand Canyon Dr
A large Las Vegas-Clark County Library District branch at the northwest corner of The Lakes, with an art gallery, meeting rooms and a business hub used by residents and small-business owners.
Who searches here: students, job seekers and small-business owners. Tax preparers, bookkeepers, tutors and insurance agents.Off W Sahara Ave near Durango Dr
A private, guard-gated golf community that opened in 1985 on a Ted Robinson course, immediately east of The Lakes. It runs golf, tennis, fitness and dining behind the gates.
Who searches here: homeowners on golf-course and guard-gated lots. Real estate agents, pool and landscape companies, financial advisors and remodelers.W Sahara Ave at Durango Dr
The neighborhood’s own retail and dining corner, anchored by The Lakes Lounge, a 24-hour local spot open since 1987, with restaurants, salons and professional offices nearby.
Who searches here: diners and clients between Durango and Buffalo. Restaurants, salons, med spas and professional services.Along S Durango Dr, east edge
The community park and trailhead along Durango Drive, plus the Angel Park golf club a short drive northwest, keep families and recreation traffic moving on the east side.
Who searches here: families and weekend recreation. Youth sports, tutoring, pediatric dentists and fitness studios.The Lakes was developed by the Collins family and partners from the mid-1980s, built around a man-made lake instead of a golf course. The original plan called for two lakes, which gave the community its plural name, per the community’s recorded history. Most homes followed inside a decade, and that build date shapes what residents search for today.
Excavation of Lake Sahara begins on the west-valley site chosen for lake-centered living.
The Citibank payment center opens nearby, and USPS creates the “The Lakes, NV” ZIP so card-payment mail avoids a Las Vegas postmark.
Lake Sahara is completed, about 30 acres, private to the community, stocked for fishing with no swimming.
Custom and semi-custom homes build out around the lake and along the Durango and Sahara edges.
A built-out community: homes are 30 to 40 years old, and ZIP 89117’s median home value is $512,500, per U.S. Census data.
Homes built in the late 1980s and 1990s are now 30 to 40 years old. Roof replacement, HVAC swaps, re-piping, pool resurfacing and kitchen and bath remodels are the searches that follow, from owners with equity to spend.
ZIP 89117’s median household income is $75,145, per U.S. Census ACS data. These households compare prices and reviews, then pay for licensed, well-rated work.
Waterfront custom homes on Lake Sahara run well into seven figures. They drive premium demand for pool and spa service, dock and seawall work, landscaping and high-end remodeling.
ZIP 89117 holds 23,313 households, per the U.S. Census. That is a deep pool of repeat local demand for home, health and professional services.
We take 1 client per city, per industry, so the plan below is the one your competitor will not get. These are the categories we see searched most around The Lakes, with the phrases that bring paying customers.
1 seat per industry, per city, first come, first served. Ask on the call whether your seat is still open. Industries not listed here get the same rule.
6 services, 1 plan. Local SEO is the core for a neighborhood business. The rest gets added when the numbers say it should.
Categories, service areas, photos, posts and review replies tuned to The Lakes, Lake Sahara and 89117, so you show up in the Maps 3-pack between Durango Drive and Hualapai Way.
Las Vegas digital marketing servicesKeyword research against the firms already ranking on Sahara and Durango, pages that match search intent, technical fixes and content that earns links.
Las Vegas SEO servicesPages written to be quoted: direct answers, structured data and the same facts across your site, your Business Profile and the directories AI models read.
How AI answers chooseSearch campaigns scoped to the west valley, landing pages that match the ad, call tracking and a cost per lead you can read on 1 line.
Fast WordPress sites built to rank and convert, with click-to-call, online booking and review widgets on every service page.
Monthly strategy time with Mike on pricing, offers, review systems and the channels around search, with the next 30 days written down at the end of each call.
BrightLocal’s September 2026 study tracked 200,085 local searches across 1,300 business locations. 45% of consumers now use ChatGPT or other generative AI tools for local business recommendations, and Google AI Overviews name 2.5 businesses per answer on average. Business websites supplied 42% of the citations in that study and Google Business Profiles supplied 28.63%, so both have to say the same thing about you.
Here are 3 options that serve The Lakes, NV (89117):
1. Your Company 1 resurfaces pools in The Lakes, Canyon Gate and Summerlin from its office near W Sahara Ave 2. Rated 4.9 from 120 Google reviews that mention plaster and pebble finishes 3. Free quotes within 48 hours.2. A competitor on Durango Dr, 4.6 from 88 reviews.
3. A competitor near Desert Inn Rd, 4.4 from 61 reviews.
1 page per service, per area, with the business name in the first sentence. Thin duplicate pages get skipped, by Google and by the models that read Google.
Name, service, area and proof before the scroll. AI answers lift the sentence that already reads like an answer.
A review system that asks customers to mention what was done and where. 120 reviews that say “pool” and “The Lakes” beat 300 that say “great job”.
ProfessionalService, Service and FAQPage schema with the same name, address and phone as the page and the profile. Google’s own AI features guidance points back to the same basics: crawlable pages and accurate structured data.
Hours, categories, service area, photos and replies. It supplied 28.63% of the citations in the BrightLocal study, second only to business websites.
Source: BrightLocal, Local AI Visibility Study, September 2026, 200,085 non-branded searches and 1.9 million citations.

The 3-pack a searcher sees on Durango Drive differs from the one on Hualapai Way, because Google weighs distance from the searcher. 3 factors decide who shows up, and Google names them in its own Business Profile ranking guidance: relevance, distance and prominence.
Illustration. Names, ratings and positions are examples, not live results.
Your primary category plus the services listed in your profile, each matched to a landing page on your site. A pool company with 1 category and no services page loses to one with 6 services and 6 pages.
We do: category audit, service list, 1 page per service.A real address in or next to the community for storefront searches. For a service-area business that works from trucks, a profile with The Lakes and 89117 in the service area and a neighborhood page like this one.
We do: service-area setup, neighborhood pages, address consistency.Review count and pace, citations on Yelp and the directories AI reads, and links from Las Vegas sites and press. Prominence is why a 4.9 with 120 reviews outranks a 5.0 with 9.
We do: review system, citation cleanup, local link outreach.5 markers, 12 months at most. Moderate terms usually clear in 3 to 6 months. The hardest terms in the west valley can take the full 12, and the guarantee covers all 12.
You see which The Lakes terms pay, who ranks for them today along Sahara and Durango, and whether your industry seat is still open. No deck, no pitch.
Technical fixes, Business Profile corrections and a name, address and phone match across your site, your schema and the directories. Tracking goes live so every call has a source.
1 page per service and per area, written to be quoted, linked from the pages on your site that already rank. The Lakes, Lake Sahara and 89117 each get the right placement.
A review request system for your front desk or your trucks, citations cleaned and added, and links from Las Vegas sources that Google and the AI models already trust.
Rankings, calls and booked jobs reported every month on 1 page. If a competitive term is not in the Top 3 by month 12, the guarantee applies.

Founder, Eclipse Marketing
Eclipse Marketing is owner-operated. Michael Vale sets the strategy for every west Las Vegas client and reads the numbers himself, and reports cover booked calls, lead quality and cost per lead rather than traffic charts. That setup cuts both ways.
SEO compounds, so it pays back fastest for a business that already works. If that is not you yet, Mike will tell you on the first call and point you somewhere cheaper.
8 answers in plain English. The rest get answered on the call.
Price depends on your industry, the competitors already ranking along Sahara Avenue and Durango Drive, and how much work your website and Google Business Profile need. We quote after a free 30-minute call, once we have seen where you rank today.
Moderate search terms usually move in 3 to 6 months. The most competitive terms in the west valley, such as roofing, personal injury or cosmetic dentistry, can take up to 12. Our guarantee is a Top 3 Google ranking within 12 months.
No. The Lakes is its own community inside the City of Las Vegas, built around the private Lake Sahara in the mid-1980s. Summerlin sits to the northwest, Canyon Gate to the east, Peccole Ranch to the north and Spring Valley south of Desert Inn Road. It is a separate place from Desert Shores, the other lakes community further northeast. Google Maps labels it The Lakes, in ZIP code 89117.
Use each one where it fits. Titles and headings use The Lakes. Body copy names your street and cross street, such as Sahara Avenue at Durango Drive, plus Lake Sahara and the ZIP code 89117. Your Business Profile and schema carry your exact address in 89117, not the old Citibank 89163 ZIP, and the service area lists The Lakes and Summerlin if you serve both.
For storefront searches, an address in or next to the community matters because Google weighs distance from the searcher. For service-area businesses such as roofers, pool companies and movers, a Business Profile with The Lakes and 89117 in the service area, plus a page about the community, is how you compete without an office there.
Yes. Medical and dental searches in 89117 are won with a page per service, review replies that name the service, and categories set correctly in your Business Profile. We follow health advertising rules and never publish a claim a licensed provider has not approved.
That is the goal of the AI search work. BrightLocal’s September 2026 study found that AI Overviews name 2.5 businesses per answer on average, and that business websites and Google Business Profiles supplied the most citations. Pages with direct answers, matching structured data and a current profile are what get quoted.
No. We build on what already works on your site and remove what holds it back. Larger changes, such as a redesign, happen only with your approval.
1 client per city, per industry. A 30-minute call shows you which The Lakes search terms pay, who holds them today and whether your seat is open.