Search engine marketing expert Andy Beal is back with a new blog: The Marketing Pilgrim.

In July Pandia reported that our guest writer Andy Beal had left his position at the search marketing company Websourced, which also meant that he could no longer edit his popular blog on search engine marketing: Search Engine Lowdown.

Andy Beal is now launching a new blog on search engine marketing called Marketing Pilgrim.

Andy says that he is “still opinionated, still cynical and still willing to stamp my thoughts on any search related news - even if you disagree with me or whether I’m just plain wrong.”

This is, of course, exactly the way we like it. Welcome back, Andy!

The name of the blog, reflects a trend that affects any site that tries to say something about search engine marketing. SEM is now part of a larger social, industrial and technological phenomenon that also includes blogs and other forms of online marketing. Andy intends, like Pandia, to cover the whole spectrum.

By the way, Search Engine Lowdown is still alive, now edited by Garrett French.