What does SEO in Stuttgart cost?

Ongoing work starts at 850 € a month for a standard website. Larger websites with several services and locations sit at 1,200 € a month, very large websites in competitive markets at 4,000 €. These are entry prices: they move upwards through effort, not through your industry or your revenue.

Two items are not included. A new website with an SEO foundation is billed separately, at a fixed price from 2,500 €. Google Ads are managed on top; the effort depends on your ad budget and is agreed in the initial consultation.

Four things, and none of them is your revenue: the size of the website, the number of your services and locations, the competition for your search terms, and how much content has to be created from scratch.

A trade business with one service and one catchment area is manageable in a contained amount of time. A law firm with eight practice areas or a business with three locations needs its own page for every combination of service and place, written, linked and maintained — that is the step from 850 € to 1,200 €.

Competition comes on top of that. For search terms that have been worked on in Stuttgart for years, a clean foundation is no longer enough; there it comes down to who keeps adding content. That is the range in which the effort reaches 4,000 €.

From 850 € five things are included: technical SEO and ongoing optimisation, building and maintaining your Google Business Profile, optimisation of your most important pages, visibility in AI answers, and a monthly report plus the client portal.

From 1,200 € you also get ongoing content for real search terms, local SEO for several places and services, and a monthly strategy update. From 4,000 €, aggressive topic expansion, competitor monitoring and extended reports.

Every hour of work is visible in the client portal. That is not an extra but the only way to check a monthly invoice whose result only becomes visible months later.

Convert every quote into hours before you compare prices. Divide the monthly price by an hourly rate you would consider realistic for skilled work in your own industry. If only one or two hours a month remain, there can be no ongoing work in it — you are paying for automated reporting.

Also ask what happens in a specific month. A solid quote names the work: which pages get reworked, which content gets created, what happens to the Google Business Profile. A quote that promises positions instead says nothing about the effort — and in the end it is Google that awards the positions, not the agency.

Do the arithmetic with your own contribution margin: if one additional job a month covers the fee, the maths works out as long as the visibility holds. For a business whose average job runs into four figures, that threshold is reached sooner than for an offering with a two-figure basket.

The second factor is time. First movements often show after a few weeks, noticeable results usually after three to six months — and the work keeps paying off without you paying per click. If you need capacity filled in the short term, Google Ads are the better tool: visibility from day one, which ends as soon as the budget ends.

We say this in the initial consultation even when the honest answer argues against an SEO engagement. A client for whom the monthly invoice does not add up will cancel anyway — and with us can do so at the end of the month.

No guaranteed rankings, no assured placements and no date by which a particular position is reached. Google decides positions, and nobody outside Google can guarantee them — anyone who does anyway is selling a promise they cannot keep.

What we can commit to is the effort: which work happens in which month, traceable in the client portal and in the monthly report. Floxa is a young, small company based in Remseck am Neckar — that means short paths and direct contact, and it also means we do not show a reference list that does not exist yet. What we can do, you see in the analysis you get free of charge before the first invoice.