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Blog Post Blueprint — Financial Service

Blog posts are the content AI actually cites. When a financial firm publishes market commentary, retirement planning guides, or tax strategy articles, structured data tells AI who wrote it, when it was published, and which firm stands behind it — turning a page of financial advice into a quotable, attributable source.

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What this page needs

Financial blog posts are the pages AI cites most often when users ask about investing, retirement, or tax strategy. When someone asks an AI for advice on a topic your firm has written about, these are the signals it looks for before quoting or linking your article:

BlogPosting type. Use BlogPosting as the @type so AI recognizes the page as authored editorial content rather than a generic web page or marketing copy.
Author as a Person with credentials. A Person node with name, jobTitle, url, and sameAs links tells AI exactly who is responsible for the financial advice and whether they have relevant credentials.
datePublished and dateModified. AI systems weight freshness heavily for financial content. Tax laws change annually, and market conditions shift constantly. These two fields let AI decide whether your article is current enough to cite.
Publisher as an Organization. The publisher field links the article to your firm. AI uses this to attribute the financial advice to a regulated institution, not just an individual blogger.
articleSection for topic classification. Use articleSection to categorize the post — "Retirement Planning," "Tax Strategy," "Market Commentary" — so AI can match it to the right type of financial query.

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 humans increase citation confidence in high-liability niches. A faceless organization is harder for AI to recommend for law, medicine, or finance.
jobTitle: AI uses job title to classify expertise level and match the provider to credential-specific queries.
url: AI verifies real people exist through linkable profiles. Without a URL the Person node is an unverifiable claim.
sameAs: AI cross-references the person against external sources to confirm they exist. LinkedIn is the strongest signal for professional services.

Organization

name: Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.
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 before recommending a service.

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.

You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Financial Service 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. Category
4. Crd number
5. Domain
6. Faq answer
7. Faq question
8. Featured image
9. Firm name
10. Job title
11. Linkedin
12. Logo
13. Modified date
14. Post description
15. Post slug
16. Post title
17. Publish date
18. 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 Financial Service 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 a financial service website.

{
  "@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/team/YOUR_AUTHOR_SLUG/",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/YOUR_LINKEDIN",
        "https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/YOUR_CRD_NUMBER"
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
      "name": "YOUR_FIRM_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "logo": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_LOGO.png"
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/blog/YOUR_POST_SLUG/#breadcrumb"
      }
    },
    {
      "@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 the author be the individual advisor or the firm?

Use a Person node for the author and an Organization node for the publisher. This tells AI that a specific advisor wrote the article and that the firm published it. AI systems give more weight to content with a named, credentialed author than to content attributed only to a company name.

How important is dateModified for financial content?

Very important. Financial advice has a shelf life. Tax rules change, market conditions shift, and regulatory updates can make old advice inaccurate. AI systems check dateModified to decide if your article is still current. If you update a post with new tax year numbers or revised regulations, update the dateModified field so AI knows the content is fresh.

What articleSection values work best for financial content?

Use clear, descriptive categories that match how users search: "Retirement Planning," "Tax Strategy," "Investment Management," "Estate Planning," "Market Commentary," or "Financial Education." Avoid internal jargon. The value should be something a user might actually type into a search query.