I just had an email from wordpress. what does it mean?

That means you have been linked from that page (See Codex for PingBack)

A Quote from Codex –
Pingbacks were designed to solve some of the problems that people saw with trackbacks. The official pingback documentation makes pingbacks sound an awful lot like trackbacks:

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