Title: pingback question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# pingback question

 *  [thehappysinglemother](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thehappysinglemother/)
 * (@thehappysinglemother)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-question-2/)
 * Hi –
    I’m quite new to all of this so I apologize if this has an obvious answer!
   Yesterday in my comments I had two “pingbacks” from other sites — I get that 
   this means a link was placed to one of my posts on that site. However, it wasn’t
   that someone was referencing my post in their own, but that my site had been 
   somehow generated in a list of “related posts” at the bottom. In fact, the article
   wasn’t even relevant to my site — it had just picked up on a keyword. Is this
   spam? Should I mark it as approved? How does my site end up in these “related
   posts” lists?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-question-2/#post-1894570)
 * > Is this spam?
 * Probably.
 * > Should I mark it as approved?
 * Personally, I just trash these.
 * > How does my site end up in these “related posts” lists?
 * They’re probably picking up your RSS feed.

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