No, nofollowing internal links to sculpt equity is largely ineffective and outdated, and you should manage low-value pages with noindex or site structure instead. The appeal of the tactic rests on a model that no longer holds: the idea that adding nofollow to a link “saves” that link’s equity and pushes it into your other internal links. Google’s handling does not redistribute it that way, so the practice mostly fails to do the one thing people adopt it for. The lever you reach for does not move the thing you want to move.
The mechanism is the key point. When you nofollow an internal link, the equity that would have flowed through it is not rerouted to the followed links on the same page, it is simply not redistributed the way the sculpting model imagines. Observed behavior since Google changed how nofollow is handled is that you do not concentrate PageRank on your money pages by starving the low-value ones, you mostly just remove a normal internal signal and gain nothing in return. So the effort to dam and redirect flow with internal nofollows produces little or no concentration, which is worth confirming against current guidance but has held for a long time.
That leaves the real problem, genuinely low-value pages, still needing a solution, and there are better levers. If a page should not be in the index at all, noindex it, which keeps it out of search results directly rather than trying to choke its link signal. If a page does not deserve prominence, manage it through structure: link to it less, place it deeper, or keep it out of sitewide navigation so it naturally receives fewer internal links. Those approaches actually shape what gets crawled, indexed, and emphasized, which is what people hoped sculpting would do.
So drop internal nofollow as an equity tactic. For each low-value page, decide whether it belongs in the index, if not, apply noindex, and shape its prominence through how and where you link to it rather than through nofollow. Let your site structure and indexing decisions do the work, because they are the controls that actually respond, while internal nofollow sculpting mostly is not.