rel=author

I've been doing well using rel=author on my affiliate sites to boost clickthrough. Fake profiles of course :D This morning two of my sites no longer have the profile shot showing up in the SERPS. Any one know how to get around this? As a long shot I am thinking of changing the google plus...

In regard to rel=author, is there any way to denote that a company is the author of content? We write 100% original content for product reviews/articles on our site and want to make sure that big G knows we wrote it, even if the content is scraped and posted onto someone else's website. I am...