Where Does the Website Go on Your Resume?
You built a personal site, and now you are wondering where the website link goes on your resume. Short answer: the contact line, as plain text. Here is why.
Your website goes on the contact line at the top of your resume, right next to your email and phone number. That answers "resume where does the website go" in one sentence. Write the address as plain text, something like reeves.dev/portfolio, so it works even on a printed page. The contact block under your name already lists every way to reach you, and your website is one more. You may have spent time building your site only to drop its address in the first gap you found: buried in a bullet or tucked into a footer. Put it at the top and move on.
This post assumes your site already exists. If you have not built one yet, we cover that in how to build a resume website.
Resume where does the website go: on the contact line
Your name sits at the top of the page. Directly below it, a single line holds your email, phone number, city, and website. That line is the contact line.
Jordan Reeves [email protected] · Chicago, IL · 773-555-0148 · reeves.dev/portfolio
The link travels with your contact details, not off on its own in a corner. The contact line has one job: tell the reader how to reach you. Your website is part of that answer, so it earns its place there. Put it lower on the page and you force it to compete with your work experience for attention.
If you bury your link among your job bullets, you make it harder to find when it would actually be useful. Give your URL the same visibility as your phone number by keeping it on the contact line. A layout like Classic sets this up by default, so you do not have to guess the spacing.
Plain text beats a hidden hyperlink
Write the address out as visible text: reeves.dev/portfolio, not a word like "portfolio" hiding a hyperlink behind it. If your resume gets printed, a hidden link becomes a dead end. The reader sees a clickable word on screen but has nothing to type on paper.
Plain text also keeps your .docx and .pdf files clean for the software that processes them. A styled button or a coloured badge can drop out of the text stream entirely. The formatting habits that keep the rest of your file readable apply to your URL too. We lay them out in ats friendly resume template.
Do this
reeves.dev/portfolio jordanreeves.com
Not this
Click here to view my portfolio Portfolio (hyperlinked, no visible URL)
Drop the "https://" prefix. It adds nothing a browser cannot fill in, and it eats characters you need on a one-page resume.
If your URL runs long, shorten the path. A clean address like jordanreeves.com is easier to read than jordanreeves.com/pages/my-work/portfolio-v2. You can set up a redirect from a short path to whatever page you want your reader to land on. The shorter the address, the easier it is to scan on a crowded contact line.
A second mention earns its space only next to the work it shows
For most people the contact line is the whole job. Nothing else is needed. But if your site shows a specific project, you can mention it a second time next to the bullet it supports.
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- On the contact line, always. This is the default home for your website address.
- Next to one project or role, only when the site shows that exact piece of work. Never in more than those two places.
The test is whether your reader would learn something by clicking through. If the second mention shows them new work, keep it. If it only reminds them your site exists, the contact line already handled that.
Stray links in headers or footers weaken your resume
A link in the wrong place can look careless. Here is what to steer clear of.
- Running headers or footers. You control what appears on the printed page, but you do not control how every piece of software handles content outside the main body. Put every link you need read inside the body of the page.
- A bare URL with no context, dropped between two job entries. It reads as a formatting mistake.
- A link to a site that is half-finished or last updated years ago. Check your site on your phone before you send the resume. If the site hurts more than it helps, remove the link until it is ready.
- A blog with no connection to the role you are applying for. A cooking blog on a finance resume raises questions instead of answering them.
Every item on your resume either strengthens your case or weakens it. There is no neutral ground.
LinkedIn and your website belong on the same contact line
You might wonder whether your LinkedIn URL replaces your website or sits alongside it. They do different things. LinkedIn is a profile. Your website is a portfolio or a project gallery you control end to end. If you have both, list both on the contact line. If you only have one, use that one.
Jordan Reeves [email protected] · Chicago, IL · linkedin.com/in/jordanreeves · reeves.dev/portfolio
Trim your LinkedIn URL to linkedin.com/in/yourname. Drop the trailing query strings that pile up when you copy it from a browser. Four items on the contact line is comfortable. Five starts to crowd a single row, so test whether the line wraps in your template before you send it.
If you do not have a personal website, your LinkedIn profile is a reasonable stand-in. Treat it the same way: put the URL on your contact line and write it out as plain text. Make sure the profile is current before you list it.
Which websites are worth adding to a job application
Your personal site is the obvious first choice, but you may have other links that support your application. A GitHub profile lets your reader see your code. A Behance page shows your design work. The question for each is the same: does this URL help your case for the role you are applying for?
Keep your contact line to four or five items. If you already list your email, phone number, city, and LinkedIn, you have room for one more link before the line wraps. Pick the URL that adds the most to your application and leave the rest out.
A link you include out of habit dilutes the ones that matter. Choose each URL the way you choose each bullet on your resume: if it does not strengthen your case, it goes. Before you submit, open every URL you listed and make sure it loads. A broken link is worse than no link at all.
The website goes on the contact line, written as plain text, in the same clean layout as everything else. Classic gives you that layout by default. Build the site if it helps your case, then give its address the one clear home it deserves.
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