bobothecat - 10:14 pm on Jun 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

7. Will participating in this program change my pages' ranking in Google search results? No. Using Google Sitemaps will not influence your PageRank; there will be no change in how we calculate the ranking of your pages.

Just noticed this... interesting how they use PageRank and "page's ranking" in the same statement.

Perhaps I'm just analyzing the FAQ to much :) I think most of us agree that PageRank has nothing to do with a page's rank - in most cases ( at least for now ).