This might be a little long winded so please stay with me.
Okay. I have worked for the likes of Homeserve,Reactfast and Able group Uk. These are all companies that offer plumbers for hire amonst other things. I was annoyed about the rates they charged and the fact they took the lions share. I decided to buy mulitple websites and promote my own plumbing business direct to the consumer. I bought domain names for each area I cover as I believed this would aid my google listings opposed to one central site that covers all areas. Was I incorrect in this belief?
I had some sites professionally made and some sites I attempted to create myself with web page maker. I must say I was alerted by Google (by the dropping of my sites from their indexing) that there were some problems with the web pages I created. Namely they were almost identical copies of each other and there was a possibilty they could have dropped me for putting keywords in the alt tags. Having said that I only learnt that from the peoples websites at the top of the Google ranking so maybe there was a line I crossed?
I have now made individual sites and I am starting to put original content on each of them which I think will take a lot of work (which I have no objection to).
Would I be better off scrapping the multiple sites and pool all the content into one site?
If you're still with me thank you and I would appreciate some advice on this matter.

Thank you