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Find Out Why Your Review Is Held or Removed

See what's happening to a review that hasn't appeared, fix it, or ask us to look again.

  • Updated 27 October 2026
  • 1 min read
  1. Open the account menu and select Your reviews.
  2. Find the review and read its status and the note under it.
  3. If it says Being checked, wait: a person at Agoo reads it, usually within 2 working days, and you're emailed when they decide.
  4. If it says Waiting for you, select Change, take out what the note asks, and select Save changes.
  5. If it says Removed, select Read the guideline to see the reason.

Good to Know

  • A review is held or removed only for the reasons in the guidelines, the same whatever the stars: personal details, a crime pinned on a person, threats, advertising, or a review that isn't your own experience.
  • Phone numbers, email addresses and links have to come out before a review can be sent.
  • Every review of a school, a place of worship or an estate is read by a person before it appears. At a clinic, a review that seems to mention health details waits for you to confirm they're your own.
  • A person never changes your words. No business can hold, hide or speed up a review.

If Something Goes Wrong

  • You think a removal was wrong. Reply to our email about it within 30 days and say why. A different moderator looks again.
  • Writing is paused on your account. See Appeal a decision on your account.
  • New reviews of a place are paused. When far more reviews than usual arrive at once, a page pauses new reviews for a short while, with a note on the page. Try again later.

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