I just read a post on another forum that the person said he puts them on his privacy, disclosure, contact page, etc. Wouldn't this be like telling Google not to follow pages that Google says you should have?
Google still follows the links. It just does not count them as page rank. I personally see no reason why not to just let Google crawl all my pages without any extra tags, if they are a legitimate part of my site, let them show up on the SERPs, one more thing that could rank up there.
So in other words I've been making my affiliate links nofollow in hopes that it wouldn't seem like affiliate links, but Google would follow them anyway? Thanks
NoFollow is mostly used to deter spammers from posting on certain pages, blogs or forums where the owners want to preserve integrity and quality. But more often than not the Search Engines will overlook the NoFollow tag.
I don't have much knowledge about this but I think If you want Google not to crawl that page you can put no index tag on it.
For your reference no-follow instructs not to show any effect links ranking in search engines index and no-index addresses search engine bots to prevent indexing a Webpage! For more information search on Google and you will see the complete difference between No-follow and No-index tags!