Current Month Link

I’m trying to use this:

<a href="<?php get_month_link('', ''); ?>">Continue to the blog</a>

to make a link to the current month but it doesn’t work. All it does is knock my layout all to heck (ie – sidebar ends up below main page). This is the code the above outputs:

<a href="<?php get_month_link('', ''); ?>“>Continue to the blog</a>

As you can see, all it does is turn the last ” into the ASCII version or whatever you call it.

Any ideas how to fix this or the correct code to use to make the link?

Thanks :o)