Does having a Sitemap increase SEO/SERP?

[jmsmrtn98]

Does having a Sitemap page increase your SEO/SERP? And also, does having any/all of these pages increase your SEO/SERP, for example, About Us, Contact Us, Privacy, Terms, Disclaimer

[wjleong]

NO

But by having a sitemap can let google, yahoo, bing etc know your site structure and pages, so that they can crawls as much as possible. But whether include them or not are all depend on the search engine algorithm as well as their wishes.

[arunaaa]

No..Sitemap help to increase your Webpage Indexing Speed.