Title: Pingback Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Pingback * Resolved [angie_s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angie_s/) * (@angie_s) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-6/) * hello! i receive this email when i add i link inside my website * <> and then it appears as a comment. * Why does this happen? Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-6/#post-5246976) * That’s a pingback: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks) 🙂 * You can use a plugin like [http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-self-ping/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-self-ping/) to stop leaving pingbacks on your own blog when you link internally. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Pingback’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment/) * [pingback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingback/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-6/#post-5246976) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics