Case study: Lake Glass & Mirror
From 13th to #1 on Google Maps.
How a family-owned Leesburg glass shop, in business since 1983, became the first name homeowners see when they search for frameless shower enclosures, in about four months.
Four months. Three big wins.
Google Maps results for “frameless shower enclosure” across Lake and Sumter County, June to October 2026.
Average position is across the full service area. The Villages area covers Oxford, Lady Lake, and Stonecrest.
The challenge
Great work, hard to find
Lake Glass & Mirror has been doing beautiful work in Leesburg since 1983. Online, though, a homeowner searching for a shower enclosure would scroll right past them. Four things were holding them back.
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No shower page
Google had nothing to show for the service they wanted to grow most.
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Mixed-up listings
Their address appeared two different ways across 13 directories.
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A thin Google Business Profile
Missing categories, extra phone numbers, and dozens of unanswered reviews.
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Invisible in The Villages
They ranked 14th to 20th in the market they wanted most.
What we did
Fix the basics, then keep building
No single trick moved this ranking. It came from getting the fundamentals right, then building on them month after month.
Web design + local SEO
A shower page that answers real questions
We built a dedicated Shower Enclosures page covering styles, the process, service areas, and common questions. Behind the scenes, structured data tells Google exactly what Lake Glass offers and which towns it serves.
When the map showed weak spots around Oxford and Stonecrest, we named those towns on the page directly.
Any good agency can do those things. Then came the part only we could do.
The part only we could do
The Style advantage
We publish Lake & Sumter Style, the region’s magazine for 20 years. So Lake Glass & Mirror didn’t just get a better website. They got in front of the homeowners they wanted most, in print and online, from a name those homeowners already trust. And every piece pointed straight to the new shower page.
When the team behind your rankings also publishes the region’s top magazine, every ad, article, and story pulls in the same direction, backed by 20 years of local trust and authority.
The results
From buried to first in about four months
Each dot is a spot on the map where we checked who shows up for “frameless shower enclosure.” Green means Lake Glass & Mirror is in the top three. Orange is 4th to 10th. Red means a homeowner there would likely never find them.
Drag the handle to compare June and October.
Better at every check-in
Average map position at each scan. Shorter bars are better.
What that means on the ground
- Top spot at home. They’re the first glass company a homeowner sees across Leesburg, Fruitland Park, and much of the surrounding area.
- In the running in The Villages. Around Oxford, Lady Lake, and Stonecrest, they moved from 14th–20th to mostly 4th and 5th.
- Ahead of every competitor. They passed businesses with far more Google reviews.
- The phone rang. In October, Bert extended our engagement by six months.
The Akers Wave is real. We’re just trying to stay on top of it.
Great at what you do, but hard to find online?
We’d love to talk. We help local businesses across Lake and Sumter County, including The Villages, show up where their customers are searching. Let’s see what we can do for yours.
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