How to exclude a domain from your Google search results

If you’re like me, you rely on Google a lot to help you though your day. There are a few sites out there that - much to my frustrated chagrin - include their content in Google’s index but won’t let you see the content when you click the search results link - unless you sign up for an account (sometimes you even have to pay). I know there are some ways around the blocked access (Google can see the content, so there are open doors), but what I really want is a way to avoid seeing those sites in my search results. As it turns out, excluding a domain from search results is very simple. It’s not very clearly documented anywhere, but I’ll tell you here, so you’ll be a tiny bit smarter and look really cool to whomever you show it to in the future. To start, one key thing about searching with Google that we need to understand is that in pretty much any Google search you can exclude anything you want by preceding it with a m...