I've been searching online for hours and trying different things all-day.

As the title states, I cannot get @Html.Actionlink or the @Url.Action to generate a url. I have no idea why:

So, here is my setup:

Controller (BaseMvcController inherits RenderMvcController)

public class BlogContainerController : BaseMvcController
{
    public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel umbracoModel)
    {
        BlogContainer model = GetViewModel(umbracoModel);

        return CurrentTemplate(model);
    } 

}

I cannot use return base(model); because my model is not inheriting RenderModel.

I am also using the Model Builder and extending them with my own partial classes:

Model

    /// <summary>BlogContainer</summary>
[PublishedContentModel("blogContainer")]
public partial class BlogContainer
{

    public new const string ModelTypeAlias = "blogContainer";
    public new const PublishedItemType ModelItemType = PublishedItemType.Content;

    public BlogContainer(IPublishedContent content)
        : base(content)
    { }

//....

public partial class BlogContainer : PublishedContentModel
{
    public IEnumerable<BlogArticle> ArticleList { get; set; }

    public IEnumerable<BlogYearFolder> BlogYears { get; set; }

    public IEnumerable<TagModel> TagList { get; set; }

}

Initially, I was using a partial view for this part but trying to troubleshoot, I placed it back in the parent view. I need to be able to pass in variables for the tags and attempted that first but no matter what I do - no url...

View

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<BlogContainer>
<div>
    <h3>Tags</h3>
    <ul>
        @foreach (var tag in Model.TagList)
            {
            <li>
                @Html.ActionLink(tag.Text, "Index", "BlogContainer", null , null)
            <a href="@Url.Action("Index", "BlogContainer", null)"> test url</a>
        </li>

        }
    </ul>
</div>

This is the HTML that is rendered:

Page

    <div>
    <h3>Tags</h3>
    <ul>
            <li>
                <a href="">Brett Spencer</a>
            <a> test url</a>
        </li>
            <li>
                <a href="">Tag 1</a>
            <a> test url</a>
        </li>
            <li>
                <a href="">Tag2</a>
            <a> test url</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

Why is this not generating a url?