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Blog Post Blueprint — NGO

Blog posts are the content AI actually cites. When your NGO publishes articles about your cause, structured data tells AI who wrote it, when it was published, and which organization stands behind it — turning a page of text into a quotable, attributable source.

What this page needs

Blog posts are the pages AI cites most often. When someone asks an AI about a topic your NGO has written about, these are the signals it looks for before quoting or linking your article.

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.

Person

name
Named leadership increases organizational trust. AI recommends organizations with identifiable leaders more confidently.
jobTitle
AI uses job title to identify the organization's leadership and assess organizational structure.
url
AI verifies real people exist through linkable profiles.
sameAs
AI cross-references leadership against external sources to build organizational credibility.

Organization

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed organization.
url
AI needs a stable URL to attribute recommendations and route users correctly.
logo
Visual identity signal. AI uses logo presence to assess institutional legitimacy.

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 NGO 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. Category
3. Domain
4. Faq answer
5. Faq question
6. Featured image
7. Job title
8. Linkedin
9. Logo
10. Modified date
11. Organization name
12. Post description
13. Post slug
14. Post title
15. Publish date
16. Twitter
17. Word count

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 NGO 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 template covers a single blog post page on an NGO website.

JSON-LD · NGO 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_DESCRIPTION",
      "datePublished": "YOUR_PUBLISH_DATE",
      "dateModified": "YOUR_MODIFIED_DATE",
      "author": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#author"
      },
      "publisher": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
      },
      "image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_FEATURED_IMAGE.jpg",
      "articleSection": "YOUR_CATEGORY",
      "wordCount": YOUR_WORD_COUNT
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#author",
      "name": "YOUR_AUTHOR_NAME",
      "jobTitle": "YOUR_JOB_TITLE",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/about/",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/YOUR_LINKEDIN",
        "https://twitter.com/YOUR_TWITTER"
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
      "name": "YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "logo": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_LOGO.png"
    },
    {
      "@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 I use BlogPosting or Article for NGO content?

Use BlogPosting for posts in a blog or news feed. Use Article for standalone editorial pages. Both carry the same core fields. BlogPosting signals a regularly published series, which is typically what NGO blogs are.

Can the author be the organization itself instead of a person?

Technically yes, but AI gives more weight to content authored by a named individual. If a specific person wrote the post, use a Person node. If the post is truly a collective statement, you can use the Organization as the author, but named authors build more trust.

Do I need both datePublished and dateModified?

Yes. datePublished tells AI when the article first appeared, and dateModified tells it when it was last updated. If you have never updated the post, set both to the same date. AI systems use the gap between these dates as a freshness signal.

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