Thanks @DhirahMehta! Seems like you’re saying unless it’s really bad or really good - it doesn’t make a difference.
What about in terms of industry-specific knowledge. For example, if the company is in blockchain space and your website has some writings or medium posts in there that show your knowledge. Would it be helpful or not really?
Notes: Speaking from someone who’s looking to go into blockchain industry but have no industry experiences professionally, only self-learning knowledge.
It would 100% help. I was changing from very different industry to video games. Everyone said, when we talk to you, we see the interest and passion. But your resume is all from the different industry.
I created a blog website, put it at the top of my resume. Most interviewers saw it and that’s how I broke into the industry.
As an interviewer, I almost always check out the candidates URL.
Someone had visited my website and used the built-in search for a list of offensive and curse words. This was about a month after I joined so no idea if it was the background check company. But it was funny to see the same IP searching for a cocktail of words that I consider inappropriate in any setting.
Built in search on your website… so they do it manually without using script or program?? 
Some do, some don’t.
As a hiring manager, if you list a site on your resume, I’m probably going to look at it. Whether I search your name on Google/LinkedIn depends on a number of things: time, if something in your resume looked sketchy or particularly interesting, or if I think our network might overlap.
A caution: I had someone apply for a spot on my team long ago who had a web portfolio. I looked at that and it had a link to her blog. Ok, I clicked. Her most recent post was about how she was desperate and applying to my company even though she hated it, hated everything we did, and thought people who worked there were idiots. Let’s say we didn’t bother scheduling that interview.
I feel like I would do this too if I’m interviewing someone, thanks for your perspective!
Also, the story lol. That’s a very big OOF! 
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