Redirect root to www for google sites

I am trying to redirect my root domain to www. so that it's compatible with google sites, as they do not support anything but www. When I go to my root domain it tells me the dns probe finished and "nx_domain." The issue here is that when I create a page rule to do this redirection, it requires me to change the dns record to proxied. However when I do this, google sites doesn't work, and that seems to be a pretty widespread thing. I don't understand why google cares if the traffic is proxied through cloudflare. So what I need help with is either getting google to work with the proxied dns, or redirecting root to www. without proxying the dns records. Thanks!
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