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We use Yoast on WordPress website and it generates a https://www.website.com/page-sitemap.xml, arranged base on the last date of modification.

Do we need to have arranged it base on our navigation menu?

Jun Santilla
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    No. Sitemaps aren't really used by Google anymore. Also sitemaps are completely unrelated to your menu structure. Read https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox for more information. – Trebor May 12 '20 at 03:15

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No. Order does not matter in a sitemap.

From sitemaps.org:

Q: Does position of a URL in a Sitemap influence its use?

No. The position of a URL in the Sitemap is not likely to impact how it is used or regarded by search engines.

https://www.sitemaps.org/faq.html#faq_url_position

From Google:

the order in the sitemap file doesn't matter at all.

(John Mueller, Google Employee)

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-sitemaps-url-order-does-not-matter-25896.html

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