Add Cilium project idea (#1459)

* Add Cilium project idea

Signed-off-by: Bill Mulligan <[email protected]>

* nits: formatting

Co-authored-by: Vitor Floriano <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bill Mulligan <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Bill Mulligan <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Vitor Floriano <[email protected]>

Author: xmulligan

programs/lfx-mentorship/2025/03-Sep-Nov/project_ideas.md

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 ## Proposed Project ideas
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+### Cilium
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+#### Evaluate SEO, AEO, and AIO for cilium.io
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+- Description: Improve how cilium.io content is discovered, ranked, and reused by search engines and AI tools. This includes enhancing technical SEO, optimizing for answer engines like Google SGE and Perplexity (AEO), and structuring content to be easily cited and used by large language models (AIO). The mentee will perform audits, recommend improvements, and implement changes across meta tags, structured data, documentation formatting, and content strategy.
+- Expected Outcome: SEO, AEO, and AIO audit report for cilium.io, Implementation of structured metadata (e.g., FAQ schema, article metadata, canonical URLs), TL;DR summaries or answer-first formatting added to key documentation and product pages, Deep-linked, self-contained concept pages created or refactored for LLM usability, Improved search visibility and AI result representation (tracked via baseline comparison)
+- Recommended Skills: Basic web development (HTML, Markdown, GitHub-based sites), Understanding of SEO fundamentals, Interest in AI, answer engines, or technical documentation, Familiarity with static site generators
+- Mentor(s):
+  - Bill Mulligan (@xmulligan, [email protected])
+- Upstream Issue: https://github.com/cilium/cilium.io/issues/633