is a sitemap priority playing role?

vldsam95

hello i have a wordpress site

when i search in google - "site:mysite.com"
so the first results are pages that are posts without keywords that i dont promote in site

for example
my site is about safes and the pages that i promote are like - home safes, office safes... i work on those pages off site+on site
but in the results of site: the first results are pages with longtail from blog - "how choose lock to your safe" - pages that i did not link them anyway

so why is this happen? is that because the priority that is in the sitemap (of seo yoast)?
is the sitemap priority is playing some role? if yes then how can i edit the priority in the sitemap of seo yoast?

because i found that seoyoast say that the priority isnt matter
https://kb.yoast.com/kb/can-i-change-the-sitemap-priority

can i in someway make the promoted pages to be the first results in "site:" results?
and it is have a meaning?

VITSUSA

Priority word define their meaning itself, so you can set the priority of the web page in xml sitemap according to yourself.

bradvictor1

If you have many url's in your website, in which 50% are are unnecessary then you have to give priority of url's on the business importance basis.

vldsam95

bradvictor1
how can i do this?

LearnTheNew

Hi, site:www.yoursite.com it's only to check whether your pages are indexed or not. it will show according to last crawled by robots in order or the priority wise in a sitemap. Don't worry no one will search for site: it's only to identify how many pages are indexed in google.

Concentrate to get traffic to your website. @LearnTheNew

RH-Calvin

Yes XML sitemap is a coded sitemap that is used to submit in webmaster tool to help spiders crawl them and index the webpages in search engines.

Takigo

Properly compiled site map speeds up the indexing of new pages.