Neighborhood and area guide pages are how AI positions you as the local expert. This blueprint structures each neighborhood with geographic coordinates, descriptions, parent city relationships, and your brokerage's connection to the area — so AI can confidently recommend you when someone asks about living in that neighborhood.
When someone asks AI about the best neighborhoods in your market, the AI needs structured place data to answer. A neighborhood guide without JSON-LD is just prose that AI has to interpret — structured data turns your local knowledge into a machine-readable asset that AI can cite and link to with confidence.
Place node with name, description, and url. This tells AI the page is about a specific geographic area, not a generic article.GeoCoordinates with latitude and longitude pin the neighborhood to a specific point on the map, enabling AI to answer distance and proximity queries.containedInPlace property links the neighborhood to its parent city and state, establishing the geographic hierarchy that AI uses to understand where this neighborhood sits in the broader market.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
nameurlareaServedCopy 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 Real Estate Agent Neighborhoods 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. Amenity 2. Brokerage name 3. City 4. Domain 5. Faq answer 6. Faq question 7. Latitude 8. Longitude 9. Neighborhood description 10. Neighborhood image 11. Neighborhood name 12. Neighborhood slug 13. Page description 14. State 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 Real Estate Agent Neighborhoods" - 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
Copy the template below and replace every YOUR_* value with your own data. Create one block per neighborhood guide page. This goes in the <head> of each neighborhood page.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "Place",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_SLUG/#place",
"name": "YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_NAME",
"description": "YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_DESCRIPTION",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_SLUG/",
"image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_IMAGE.jpg",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": "YOUR_LATITUDE",
"longitude": "YOUR_LONGITUDE"
},
"containedInPlace": {
"@type": "City",
"name": "YOUR_CITY",
"containedInPlace": {
"@type": "State",
"name": "YOUR_STATE"
}
},
"amenityFeature": [
{
"@type": "LocationFeatureSpecification",
"name": "YOUR_AMENITY_1",
"value": true
},
{
"@type": "LocationFeatureSpecification",
"name": "YOUR_AMENITY_2",
"value": true
}
]
},
{
"@type": "RealEstateAgent",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
"name": "YOUR_BROKERAGE_NAME",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
"areaServed": {
"@type": "Place",
"name": "YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_NAME"
}
},
{
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_SLUG/#webpage",
"url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_SLUG/",
"name": "YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_NAME — YOUR_BROKERAGE_NAME",
"description": "YOUR_PAGE_DESCRIPTION",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
},
"breadcrumb": {
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_SLUG/#breadcrumb"
}
},
{
"@type": "BreadcrumbList",
"@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_SLUG/#breadcrumb",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 1,
"name": "Home",
"item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 2,
"name": "Neighborhoods",
"item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/"
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 3,
"name": "YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_NAME",
"item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/neighborhoods/YOUR_NEIGHBORHOOD_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"
}
}
]
}
]
}
Yes. Each neighborhood guide should be its own page with its own Place node. This gives AI a dedicated, focused resource for each area, rather than a single page that mentions twenty neighborhoods in passing. Dedicated pages rank better and give AI a clean, citable source for each location.
Write a concise summary of what makes the neighborhood distinctive: housing types, price ranges, walkability, school districts, and lifestyle. Keep it factual and specific. AI uses this description as a quick reference when answering queries about the area, so vague marketing language is less useful than concrete details.
Use the amenityFeature property with LocationFeatureSpecification nodes. Each amenity gets a name (like "Walking trails" or "Light rail access") and a value of true. This gives AI a structured list of features it can use to match the neighborhood to buyer preferences like "near good schools" or "walkable."