I would double down on fresh content. They've seen what you put out there and with new or fresh content you could see much more difference than buying links.

There is a discussion on that topic that started last year and offers some insights on link building today: [webmasterworld.com...]

I would definitely not abandon the project yet. New domains bounce around for months before anything stable happens. One of my sites looked completely dead for a while and then slowly started moving again.

The main issue ended up being page hierarchy and indexing. So I worked with TESSA in North Virginia to review the setup and they helped clean up the page structure and remove a few indexing problems that were hiding important pages. After that Google gradually started picking the content up again.

Create content regularly and look for backlinks in parallel. A strong backlink is better than 50 weak spammy backlinks. Don't buy the packages sold on Fiverr and those type of sites.

There could be a lots of reason of zero traffic on a site. You should have to find yours. In dept SEO AUDIT is the only way to find real reason of zero traffic.
Reason could be anything that we can't think and should not have to take action before knowing.

It could be -

• Indexing
  
• Content conversion
  
• Responsiveness
  
• Backlinking
  
• Absence of Topical Authority
  
• or anything else

Many sites give you SEO AUDIT report in 5 minutes of 20 factors but Google sees 200 factors to rank a site.

Many sites give you SEO AUDIT report in 5 minutes of 20 factors but Google sees 200 factors to rank a site.

That was many, many years ago and there used to be an official document outlining it however this has since been superceded.

New web sites tend to get attention until they get some stats. What happens after that is almost always downhill.