Here's an interesting thought. I want to accomplish two important items on my site, bonuses for people who will pay a premium.

1. The Easy: Premium members who show up first in search results. Perhaps you can have Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze level. Search results will provide profiles that fit each membership type in that order. Each type, e.g. Platinum, provides a random result so the profile with "A" isn't returned first.

2. I don't recall a search for the highest rated members. Is that possible?

3. The Challenging: I want to have different profile levels like the above, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze. In addition to search results, I'd like them to be able to be found in additional search categories that can be consolidated into one search. For example, I want to have a list of 20 features about them, e.g. Rich, Tall, Gorgeous, etc. A regular user gets to choose one. A Bronze gets two, etc. In the search, you can just search "attribute" and it will return results for each member in that bucket. If you can click 4 attributes, you've got a much better chance of being found by a user doing a search.

At first I thought of having 5 dropdown fields and each membership type has an additional field in their profile. The problem is search wouldn't work UNLESS I was someone able to have the advanced search modified where the result would be finding a match for the selected attribute in attribute field 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Now that is certainly possible but I am at a loss for that kind of code.

While some of these things can be done here with some help from you guys, I may also need some custom coding too. I think the guys at vldcrowd can help with some of that.