in need of directions

site:
articles: 10 x 1500 - 2500 word articles
ux: dont know, most likely good
niche: informational/guide

google:
WMT: about 500 keywords indexed
impressions daily: 200
clicks daily: 5

monetization:
ads: not yet registered and implemented, imo not worth it with this small clicks
email list: not enough clicks



What I think:
if i have 500 keywords indexed, and only get 200 impressions and 5 clicks daily then it means my links are not strong enough? i could write articles infinitely but i think its about links not articles?

because how it will help me if i have 3000 keywords by webmaster tools if i they all are so far that i get no clicks at all?

so should i keep making links?

There are multiple factors to take into consideration
1. Maybe the keywords have a huge competition.
2. Obviously linking (reputation), may help you rank, but is not a definite factor
3. It's not bad to have hundreds of keywords ranking, but you may check the "opportunities". For example. If you can't rank for a main keyword, maybe you see a secondary keyword that haves 1/3 of the volume of the main keyword that you are already rankin in the 2nd or the 3rd page, and looking at your article, you barely see 1 time that keyword within the text. Then, maybe you should redesign that particular article in order to better promote that keyword, using it in better places, like H1/H2, more density, and some contextual links with that exact match, with also some internal linking in your site to that exact keyword. After a while, it may rank in first page, drawing you more visits. Because if it was strong without optimization, imagine with an adequate optimization.

This is why I personally don't believe in exact match top keyword SEO. From my point of view, unless you manage a huge PBN is a huge waste of time and resources. 90% of they keyword analysis from the top-notch SEO pros are not done right, because it's barely impossible to know with exactitude which keywords will rank faithfully. So most of the people that live from real SEO (i.e., niches, not client invoicing, which is 99% of the time, a little scam to the client), create over the time, 1 hundred sites, so a 20% of the sites rank fairly and drive 80% of the total revenue. From my own knowledge, when we talk about SEO practices, its better the quantity than the quality (still some quality is needed, but avoiding perfection)