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Blog Post Blueprint — Dentist

Blog posts let your dental practice share oral health tips, procedure explanations, and patient education content. This blueprint structures each article so AI systems can attribute your content to the right dentist and connect it back to your practice, building dental health authority.

What this page needs

Dental blog content without structured data is invisible to AI. With a BlogPosting node, AI can attribute the article to a dentist author, connect it to your practice as the publisher, and surface it when patients ask oral health questions.

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

BlogPosting

headline
AI uses headline as the attribution title when citing content. Must match the H1 exactly — truncated or mismatched headlines create citation errors.
description
AI pulls this for summarization when citing the article. If absent AI guesses from page content, often inaccurately.
datePublished
AI deprioritizes undated content — it cannot assess freshness without a publish date. One of the most common missing fields on blog content.
dateModified
Signals the content is maintained and current. Without it AI cannot distinguish fresh content from abandoned posts.
author
Anonymous content gets lower AI citation confidence. Named authorship is a trust signal, especially for health, legal, and financial content.
publisher
AI uses publisher to assess source authority. Required for NewsArticle — strongly recommended for all content.
image
Required for NewsArticle. Affects citation in visual AI contexts and social sharing previews.

Dentist

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed healthcare provider.
url
AI needs a stable URL to attribute recommendations and route patients correctly.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

Implementation Prompt · Blog
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Dentist Blog page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Degree
2. Dentist author name
3. Dentist slug
4. Dentist title
5. Domain
6. Faq answer
7. Faq question
8. Featured image
9. Modified date
10. Post excerpt
11. Post slug
12. Post title
13. Practice name
14. Publish date

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. Any additional details not covered above

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Dentist Blog"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy the template below and replace every YOUR_* value with your own data. This block belongs in a <script type="application/ld+json"> tag in the <head> of each blog post.

JSON-LD · Blog Post
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "BlogPosting",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/#article",
      "headline": "YOUR_POST_TITLE",
      "description": "YOUR_POST_EXCERPT",
      "image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_FEATURED_IMAGE.jpg",
      "datePublished": "YOUR_PUBLISH_DATE",
      "dateModified": "YOUR_MODIFIED_DATE",
      "author": {
        "@type": "Dentist",
        "name": "YOUR_DENTIST_AUTHOR_NAME",
        "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/providers/YOUR_DENTIST_SLUG/",
        "jobTitle": "YOUR_DENTIST_TITLE",
        "hasCredential": {
          "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
          "credentialCategory": "YOUR_DEGREE"
        }
      },
      "publisher": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#practice"
      },
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/#webpage",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/",
      "name": "YOUR_POST_TITLE — YOUR_PRACTICE_NAME",
      "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website" }
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/" },
        { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Blog", "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/" },
        { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "YOUR_POST_TITLE", "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

Why include dentist credentials on blog posts?

Healthcare content is subject to higher trust standards by AI systems. Including the author's dental credentials (DDS, DMD) signals to AI that this is expert-authored content, making it more likely to be cited when patients ask oral health questions. This aligns with E-E-A-T principles that AI systems increasingly follow.

Should patient education articles use MedicalWebPage instead?

You can use MedicalWebPage as the WebPage type for clinically-focused articles. For general blog content (practice news, community involvement, lifestyle tips), standard WebPage with BlogPosting is appropriate. Reserve MedicalWebPage for content that genuinely discusses medical conditions or treatments.

Does blogging help dental practices get recommended by AI?

Yes. When your practice publishes structured dental content, AI builds a richer understanding of your expertise. When a patient asks "should I get dental implants?" AI is more likely to cite and recommend practices that have published authoritative content on that topic.

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