Sitemaps and SEO - Do sitemaps help your Google PageRank?

With the billions and billions of websites online today, how do you get yours noticed? The most common way is for it to be high up in search engine rankings from useful keywords. Google is the big daddy search engine and your ultimate goal should be to rank on page one.
When someone keys in a search term on Google, it is highly desired by millions that their website comes up in the top ten results basically on page...