Organizations Healthcare Medical Clinic

Blog Post Blueprint — Medical Clinic

Blog posts let your clinic share health education, seasonal wellness tips, and medical news. This blueprint structures each article so AI systems can attribute your content to a credentialed physician and connect it back to your clinic, building medical authority across topics your providers specialize in.

What this page needs

Medical content without structured data gets lost in the noise. With a BlogPosting node tied to a credentialed author, AI can attribute the article to a physician, connect it to your clinic, and surface it when patients ask health questions your providers are qualified to answer.

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.

Physician

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot recommend an unnamed healthcare professional.
medicalSpecialty
AI uses specialty to match the provider to condition-specific queries. The most important field for physician recommendation.
hasCredential
AI cites credentials before recommending healthcare professionals. Board certification is a critical trust signal for medical providers.

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 Medical Clinic 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. Author name
2. Author slug
3. Author specialty
4. Author title
5. Clinic name
6. Degree
7. Domain
8. Faq answer
9. Faq question
10. Featured image
11. Modified date
12. Post excerpt
13. Post slug
14. Post title
15. Publish date
16. Topic condition

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 Medical Clinic 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": "Physician",
        "name": "YOUR_AUTHOR_NAME",
        "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/providers/YOUR_AUTHOR_SLUG/",
        "jobTitle": "YOUR_AUTHOR_TITLE",
        "medicalSpecialty": "YOUR_AUTHOR_SPECIALTY",
        "hasCredential": {
          "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
          "credentialCategory": "YOUR_DEGREE"
        }
      },
      "publisher": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#clinic"
      },
      "about": {
        "@type": "MedicalCondition",
        "name": "YOUR_TOPIC_CONDITION"
      },
      "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_CLINIC_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

Should clinic blog posts use MedicalWebPage?

Use MedicalWebPage as the WebPage type for articles that discuss specific medical conditions, symptoms, or treatments. For general wellness tips, seasonal health advice, or clinic news, standard WebPage with BlogPosting is appropriate. The distinction helps AI understand whether the content is clinical or informational.

Can non-physician staff author blog posts?

Yes. Use Person with appropriate jobTitle and hasCredential for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered dietitians, or other clinical staff. The key is including credentials — AI evaluates author qualifications when deciding whether to cite medical content.

Should I add the about property for every blog post?

Add about with a MedicalCondition when the article discusses a specific condition (diabetes management, flu prevention, back pain). For general topics (clinic news, community events, wellness tips), omit it. The about property helps AI match your content to condition-specific patient queries.

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