Please note, every SEO agency has its own approach to dealing with SEO work.
When analyzing your competition, nobody can determine and say you fixed a fixed amount of links, as we don't know how many of those backlinks are from publicly posting allowed platforms or not.
Many SEO companies use PBNs or guest posts, both of which have their own risk associated with paid backlink issues in Google guidelines. We don't deal or provide such backlinks in all-in-one SEO plans at https://webji.in/seo-company-india-online-services/
In our strategy, SEO is done to mini sites' viz. the lead generation mini-sites, and their pages to rank lead generation sites, and in the future, once they have some authority to give a backlink to your main website.
So if someone says your competition has backlinks from x website, and they don't allow post or is a paid guest post, then some company can provide you a comment backlink to your main website - how much that risks or worth are the questions. We don't provide backlinks from such platforms and name any profile links or comment links as backlinks. NO, not our strategy.
If you buy all in one SEO plan for 3 months, having 2 mini-sites in the plan included, then after 3 months, 3 * 2 = 6 high authority niche relevant lead gen mini-sites any backlink shall be way more powerful than any of the PBN or guest post.
So we don't provide backlinks from article directories, web directories, or any other platform to money site our work is limited to rank mini-sites and later to make some backlinks from those high authority mini-sites to the main website to overnight boost up the rankings.
Furthermore, we will try to scan your competition and will create backlinks from legit sources, including any business directories, niche relevant directories, or portals wherever possible, to your main website from the authority platform. How many of them are possible that we can't count today or estimate, as that depends on and vary based on the niche and market portals/websites, or those website owners if they allow free listing or post or not.