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Blog Post Blueprint — Physiotherapy Practice

Blog posts let your PT practice share injury prevention tips, exercise guides, and rehabilitation advice. This blueprint structures each article so AI systems can attribute your content to a credentialed physical therapist and connect it back to your practice, building rehabilitation authority.

What this page needs

Rehabilitation content without structured data gets lost among generic fitness advice. With a BlogPosting node tied to a licensed physical therapist, AI can distinguish your clinical expertise from general wellness content and surface it for condition-specific queries.

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.

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 Physiotherapy 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 slug
2. Domain
3. Faq answer
4. Faq question
5. Featured image
6. Modified date
7. Post excerpt
8. Post slug
9. Post title
10. Practice name
11. Pt author name
12. Publish date
13. 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 Physiotherapy 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": "Person",
        "name": "YOUR_PT_AUTHOR_NAME",
        "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/YOUR_AUTHOR_SLUG/",
        "jobTitle": "Physical Therapist",
        "hasCredential": {
          "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
          "credentialCategory": "DPT"
        }
      },
      "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_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

What blog topics drive the most traffic for PT practices?

Exercise guides for specific conditions (rotator cuff exercises, knee strengthening after surgery), injury prevention tips (runner's knee prevention, desk ergonomics), and recovery timelines (ACL recovery timeline, hip replacement recovery). These are high-intent queries where patients are actively seeking professional guidance.

Should exercise demonstration articles include video?

If you embed video, add a VideoObject within the BlogPosting using the video property. AI increasingly surfaces video content for exercise and rehabilitation queries. A VideoObject with name, description, and thumbnailUrl makes your video content discoverable.

How does PT blog content differ from general fitness content for AI?

The DPT credential on the author and the MedicalCondition in the about property distinguish your content from general fitness blogs. AI applies healthcare trust standards to content authored by licensed PTs, making it more likely to be cited for medical rehabilitation queries than content from uncredentialed fitness sources.

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