Laravel 4 - Blade Templating - How to properly Link to Route?

Use URL::route() to get just a link:

<a href="{{ URL::route('user/profile/', $params) }}">
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</a>

if you define Route name you can use that in your blade :

 Route::get('/admin/transfer/forms-list', [
    'as'   => 'transfer.formsList',
    'uses' => 'Website\TransferController@IndexTransferForms'
]);

now you can use that in your blade like this :

<a href="{{URL::route('transfer.formsList')}}"  type="submit">
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If you Route use a Closure, you can use URL::to(), like this

<a href="{{ URL::to('home/otherpage', $params) }}">
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</a>

As @orrd sugested, in general terms is better to use named routes, so it can be easily change the URL later:

<a href="{{ URL::route('routeName', $params) }}">
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</a>

(ref: https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/helpers#urls)

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